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- Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only…
- Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that…
- Knowledge is the only elegance.
- The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.
- Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every…
- I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall not be absent…
- Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.
- The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.
- Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.
- If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what…
- The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.
- A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has…
- The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only…
- He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.
- Life is a festival only to the wise.
- The world is plentiful with honey, but only the humble bee can collect it.
- Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life in graveyards. Reptile…
- Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
- Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
- What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.
- Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work,…
- We can only be valued as we make ourselves valuable.
- We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in.
- Most people, who have quit smoking, have had at least one unsuccessful try in the past. It is not important how many times you try…
- The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.
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