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Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer.
Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.
Language is the soul’s ozone layer and we thin it at our peril.
I seal that which was not to be said in the tomb that I become.
We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.
Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
Silence is a virtue in those who are deficient in understanding.
Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.
To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.
Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.
An essay is something that tracks the evolution of a human mind.
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.
The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
The challenge was that it was harder to be subtle than strident.
All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.
One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.
Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know
We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.
We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.
When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.
In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.
Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.
He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little.
The sentence must also contain its own apology for being spoken.
It is better to be a thorn in the side of a friend than an echo.
The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.
The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.
Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves.
I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.
The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.
The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.
The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.
The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread.
Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.
The question is whether [suicide] is the way out, or the way in.
Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone.
The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.
It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
Happiness is the soul's joy in the possession of the intangible.
Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.