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- The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
- All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while other people, who…
- Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little…
- And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its…
- Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not…
- The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun;…
- It is not greedy to enjoy a good dinner, any more than it is to enjoy a good concert. But I do think there is…
- "The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ...…
- The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place.…
- I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened of it. It…
- When it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I…
- As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough…
- Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it…
- It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.
- To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should be unchangeable are his principles, his ideals. But with…
- We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
- How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own…
- I like the Cyclostyle ink; it is so inky. I do not think there is anyone who takes quite such a fierce pleasure in things…
- The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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