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There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the secret sense of…
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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
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Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but…
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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
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In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that…
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He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only…
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Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which…
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Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs…
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Every one is fond of comparing himself to something great and grandiose, as Louis XIV likened himself to the sun, and others…
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Thou hast the most unsavoury similes.
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We come to the New Testament, where again a host of imperative verbs is mustered in support of that miserable bondage of…
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Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like…
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When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his…
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By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only…
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From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter…
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