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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
I would prefer not to.
All truth is profound.
Genius is full of trash.
We die of too much life.
Nature is nobody's ally.
We die, because we live.
You cannot hide the soul.
Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity!
Niggards are oftentimes neat.
Only the man who says no is free
Ignorance is the parent of fear.
Failure is the test of greatness.
What like a bullet can undeceive!
Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
True places are not found on maps.
Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
We cannot live for ourselves alone.
The easiest way of life is the best.
Immortality is but ubiquity in time.
Ignorance is the father of all fear.
Great towers take time to construct.
Truth is in things, and not in words.
The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
Silence is the only Voice of our God.
Failure is the true test of greatness
Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
Art is the objectification of feeling.
Prayer draws us near to our own souls.
Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
I try all things, I achieve what I can.
If not against us, nature is not for us.
Youth is the time when hearts are large.
A man can be honest in any sort of skin.
We cannibals must help these Christians.
Whatever my fate, I'll go to it laughing.
Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
God is liberal of color; so should man be.
My body is but the lees of my better being.
All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.
Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.
Thrusted light is worse than presented pistols.
My means are sane, my motives and my object mad.
A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
Youth is immortal; Tis the elderly only grow old!
A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
Woe to him who seeks to please rather than appall.
Faith and philosophy are air, but events are brass.
