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A good deal of our politics is physiological.
A good indignation makes an excellent speech.
If you want a friend you need to be a friend.
He is a good man who can receive a gift well.
Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes.
Teach the children! It is painting in fresco.
God will not make himself manifest to cowards
Never utter the truism but live it among men.
Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.
The eye obeys exactly the action of the mind.
The hand of God creates; it does not conceal.
I am a professor who writes novels on Sundays
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
Kitsch is Mechanical and operates by formulas.
Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.
Happiness writes in white ink on a white page.
We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks.
Without death and decay, how could life go on?
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
The man who lives by hope, will die by hunger.
Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.
A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity.
How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
A president cant go to every memorial service.
People only see what they are prepared to see.
We must be our own before we can be another's.
We read often with as much talent as we write.
By God, I will not obey this filthy enactment!
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
In good writing, words become one with things.
For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
Adult males are what their moms designed them.
Every man I meet is in some way my superior...
If you don't ride in the rain, you don't ride.
My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.
The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.
A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.
The only true gifts are a portion of yourself.
Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
Give me truths for I am weary of the surfaces.
There is one mind common to all individual men
When the night is darkest, the stars come out.
Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.
The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.
The reality is more excellent than the report.
Its the not the Destination, It's the journey.
Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it.
There is no eloquence without a man behind it.
Gratitude is thankfulness expressed in action.