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- They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
- He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.
- Prayer draws us near to our own souls.
- Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
- This divineness had that in it which, though commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain nameless terror.
- Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
- He pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me around my waist, and said henceforth we were married.
- We become sad in the first place because we have nothing stirring to do.
- Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
- There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.
- I never fancied broiling fowls; - though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more respectfully,…
- If not against us, nature is not for us.
- The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
- God's one and only voice is silence.
- Failure is the true test of greatness
- There is a woe that is wisdom, a woe that is madness.
- Woe to him who seeks to please rather than appall.
- Immortality is but ubiquity in time.
- The easiest way of life is the best.
- Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob.
- Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!
- Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!
- Everyone knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything cooly is to do it genteelly.
- The terrors of truth and dart of death To faith alike are vain.
- Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals.
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