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- As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded…
- Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.
- Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives; I do not believe…
- We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity…
- If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's…
- Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon…
- Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was a vain endeavor?
- One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors for to dwell long upon them is to add to the offense, and repentance and sorrow…
- The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those…
- One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. To dwell long upon them is to add to the offense.
- Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely…
- As for the complex ways of living, I love them not, however much I practice them. In as many places as possible, I will get…
- Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.
- It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he…
- Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again And what do we teach…
- The prosaic man sees things badly, or with the bodily sense; but the poet sees them clad in beauty, with the spiritual sense.
- Before the end of December, generally, they experience their first thawing. Those which a month ago were sour, crabbed, and quite unpalatable to the civilized…
- The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show. A companion with whom I was sailing one…
- If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.
- Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.
- I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily…
- Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.
- The era of wild apples will soon be over. I wander through old orchards of great extent, now all gone to decay, all of native…
- How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if real stars fell…
- We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has as yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion…
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