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He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.
it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.
Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.
Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.
Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.
We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born.
The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men.
Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers.
The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house.
Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best.
You can take better care of your secret than another can.
We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.
Writing is hard, even for authors who do it all the time.
The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry.
Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention.
I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater.
The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.
Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
We hail science as man's truest friend and noblest helper.
Genuine wit implies no small amount of wisdom and culture.
Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.
I like the fact that glass ceilings are breaking all over.
My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.
You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house.
One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.
Nature ever faithful is To such as trust her faithfulness.
Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.
If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.
Let us be silent — so we may hear the whisper of the gods.
No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.
All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.
Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals
Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.
If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last.
Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.
We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.
The world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh.
Miracle comes to the miraculous, not to the arithmetician.
If I am the devil's child, I will live then, by the devil.
We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.
It depends little on the object, much on the mood, in art.
Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.
The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.