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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer.
It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.
If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.
Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know.
A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.
The have a good friend is one of the greatest delights of life.
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.
For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.
We must be lovers, and at once the impossible becomes possible.
Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.
There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress
Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.
Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.
I am always insincere, as always knowing there are other moods.
For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.
Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.
The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread.
The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.
Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.
The question is whether [suicide] is the way out, or the way in.
He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little.
Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone.
The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.
The sentence must also contain its own apology for being spoken.
In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.
We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.
The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.
Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.
One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.
Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves.
It is better to be a thorn in the side of a friend than an echo.
When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.
I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.
The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.
We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.
Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.
The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.
Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.
Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know