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Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.
A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature.
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind
My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.
An honest man, that is not quite sober, has nothing to fear.
Golf: The most ... perfect expression of National Stupidity.
Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults.
For centuries, Cuba's greatest resource has been its people.
Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.
Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.
I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man.
The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness.
A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.
Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares
She shows us only surfaces, but she is million-fathoms deep.
Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.
When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.
Do what you know and perception is converted into character.
All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.
Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.
But whoso is heroic will always find crises to try his edge.
A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.
The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.
A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs.
The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.
Something is wanting to science until it has been humanised.
The tempered light of the woods is like a perpetual morning.
None shall rule but the humble,And none but Toil shall have.
The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.
Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.
When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.
If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.
Always pay; for first or last you must pay your entire debt.
Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call.
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.
In the order of nature we may behold the ways of the Eternal.
I have sent for you that you may see how a Christian may die.
The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.
Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.