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What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.
The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.
The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.
Love is like wildflowers; It's often found in the most unlikely places.
I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-borne treasures home.
Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?
The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.
Success to the strongest, who are always, at last, the wisest and best.
Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole.
Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?
Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.
All that can be done for you is nothing to what you can do for yourself.
Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.
The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.
Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God.
The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.
We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.
For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss.
The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.
Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.
He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.
The lord is the peasant that was, The peasant is the lord that shall be.
How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.
The wings of Time are black and white, Pied with morning and with night.
It is about your outlook towards life. You can either regret or rejoice.
What goes on around you... compares little with what goes on inside you.
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself.
It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.
The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.
Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact.
Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.
Genius is saying what is in your heart, because it's in everyone's heart.
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.
Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason.
Cultivate the habit of being grateful... and ...give thanks continuously.
Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself.
Don't choose the better person, choose the person who makes a better you.
People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.