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The hero sees that the event is ancillary: it must follow him.
Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other.
It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on memory alone.
If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.
The secret of success in education is respecting the students.
In America and Europe, the nomadism is of trade and curiosity.
I am a willow of the wilderness, Loving the wind that bent me.
Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.
I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities.
Genius, even, as it is the greatest good, is he greatest harm.
The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.
Baseball’s absolute unpredictability makes amateurs of us all.
I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.
Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.
What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails.
The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
Genuine and innocent wit is surely the very flavor of the mind.
Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.
You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.
The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.
What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.
Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.
For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.
If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.
There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress
Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know.
We must be lovers, and at once the impossible becomes possible.
I am always insincere, as always knowing there are other moods.
Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.
The have a good friend is one of the greatest delights of life.
Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.
A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.
Things bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.
Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.
Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.