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• There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or if you have…
• One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.
• Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that…
• Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.
• The leaves are falling, falling as from way off, as though far gardens withered in the skies; they are falling with denying gestures. And in…
• Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion.…
• Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
• Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
• Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man…
• I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as…
• It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping him or herself.…
• One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.
• We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a…
• Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.
• Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.
• The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there…
• The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.
• The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire the…
• Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.
• The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we should have matter,…
• Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a…
• Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.
• The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended…
• I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young…
• The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.

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