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The populace drags down the gods to their own level.
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
The highest end of government is the culture of men.
You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.
Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.
To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.
So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes.
The visible heavens and earth sympathize with Jesus.
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
Writing should be the settlement of dew on the leaf.
Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
I like sayers of no better than I like sayers of yes.
Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up
Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
One thing is forever good; That one thing is Success.
I am Defeated all the time, yet to Victory I am born.
Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.
Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.
Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind.
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.
Life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.
Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth.
As long as any man exists, there is some need of him.
Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.
That which builds is better than that which is built.
Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.
If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?
The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation.
The forest is my loyal friend A Delphic shrine to me.
O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.
Drive out Nature with a fork, she comes running back.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is a nap. The more naps you take the better.
There are some men above grief and some men below it.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.
The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.
Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.
Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.
The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.
I'm happier. I guess I made up my mind to be that way.
Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.
No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.
Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.