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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.
The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.
What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.
No matter how often defeated, you are born to victory.
The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.
Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.
He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.
A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.
Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest
The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.
Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?
That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.
If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.
Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.
He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.
Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.
Your actions speak so loud, I can't hear what you say.
Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.
The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.
Ennui shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light.
Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.
An action is the perfection and publication of thought.
Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.
A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us
Consistency is the bugbear that frightens little minds.
The only method to possess a buddy is always to be one.
The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.
The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite.
Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.
We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord.
I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.
We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.
We surround ourselves with the true image of ourselves.
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.
Men consort in camp and town But the poet dwells alone.
Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.
The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.
History - a biography of a few stout and earnest persons