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The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.
What you are shouts at me so loudly that I can't hear a word you say.
Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state.
The years in your life are less important than the life in your years.
I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.
A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.
A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.
The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
The world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of liberty.
A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?
In vain produced, all rays return; Evil will bless, and ice will burn.
The God who made New Hampshire Taunted the lofty land With little men.
Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.
A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.
A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.
The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.
The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly.
There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow.
As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting.
If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.
I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.
The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.
One man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.
Beauty through my senses stole; I yielded myself to the perfect whole.
There is nothing in history to parallel the influence of Jesus Christ.
Ne te quaesiveris extra." (Do not seek for things outside of yourself)
The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.
I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.
One of our statesmen said, "The curse of this country is eloquent men."
Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.
Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.
There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.
Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.
To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.
Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me.
Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude.
The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living.
When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.
And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.