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- True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it.…
- The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
- No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
- In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to…
- I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is…
- Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is…
- If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough…
- ...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the real Unitarians who…
- The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any…
- The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted to forget. Many…
- Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.
- The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.
- "The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ...…
- Men can construct a science with very few instruments, or with very plain instruments; but no one on earth could construct a science with unreliable…
- You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.
- Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers;…
- A modern vegetarian is also a teetotaler, yet there is no obvious connection between consuming vegetables and not consuming fermented vegetables. A drunkard, when lifted…
- Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account, not in the…
- All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.
- Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.
- A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out…
- Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless that the colors of an autumn forest....Yet he seriously…
- Leaving the complications of the human breakfast-table out of account, in an elemental sense, the egg only exists to produce the chicken. But the chicken…
- Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.
- We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it. The…
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