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Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best.
Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.
Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.
Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals
The world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh.
The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.
Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.
One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.
Truth has already ceased to be itself if polemically said.
Nature ever faithful is To such as trust her faithfulness.
All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.
My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.
If I am the devil's child, I will live then, by the devil.
If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.
The student is to read history actively and not passively.
If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last.
We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.
Each of us sees in others what we carry in our own hearts.
Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.
It depends little on the object, much on the mood, in art.
Miracle comes to the miraculous, not to the arithmetician.
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.
Let us be silent — so we may hear the whisper of the gods.
Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.
No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.
We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.
You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house.
Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty.
There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all.
If you would lift me up, you've got to be on higher ground.
Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.
People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.
The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.
The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going
Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.
Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely
The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.
Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.
London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.
We thirst for approbation, yet cannot forgive the approver.
Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.
We all need someone who can help us do what we already can.
If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.