Light-enchanted sunflower, thou Who gazest ever true and tender On the sun's revolving splendour.

Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare. [Lat., Devine, si tu peux, et choisis, si tu l'oses.]

For as the old saying is, When house and land are gone and spent Then learning is most excellent.

I ofen looked up at the sky an' assed meself the question - what is the stars, what is the stars?

Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

For mortal kind taketh thought only for the day, and hath no more surety than the shadow of smoke.

What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.

It's a man's jobno place for women's plans here!what lies outside. Stay home and cause no trouble.

The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage.

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves.

Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.

Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em.

Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.

Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man.

I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.

I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.

The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.

Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen; Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.

Imyself haveheard averygood jest, and havescornedto seem to have so sillya wit as to understand it.

He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

Being mortal, never pray for an untroubled life. Rather, ask the God to give you an enduring heart.

We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.

We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness.

I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.

Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.

Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows.

The seed of mortals broods o'er passing things, and hath nought surer than the smoke-cloud's shadow.

The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.

Women in London are like the rich silks; they are out of fashion a great while before they wear out.

It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.

I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day.

My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.

It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.

Rest assured, for every piece of business the most businesslike thing is to choose the right moment.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em.

San Francisco is a world to explore. It is a place where the heart can go on a delightful adventure.

You can't just go in there and open your mouth until the cast and director feel comfortable with you.

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.

We're like so many puppets hung on the wall, waiting for someone to come and move us or make us talk.

On this site we're going to build an Eye and Ear Hospital. This is going to be a sight for sore eyes.

If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.

The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.

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