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Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?
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Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the…
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At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the…
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Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.
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There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of…
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The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style…
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he…
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What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she…
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be…
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Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it…
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Justice, not expedience, must be the guiding light. The orator must fix his eye on the polestar of justice, and plough straight…
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The name of the Lord (says the Scripture) is a strong tower; thither the righteous flee and are safe (Proverbs 18:10). Let…
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Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace?
— George MacDonald
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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call and invite God and his angels thither...
— John Donne
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Science is busy with the hither-end of things, not the thither-end.
— Charles Henry Parkhurst
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He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange…
— Loren Eiseley
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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are…
— John Donne
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No other art-medium–neither painting nor poetry–can communicate the specific quality of the dream as well as the film can. When the lights…
— Ingmar Bergman
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It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should…
— Plutarch
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It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one…
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
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