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Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?
Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.
Beauty through my senses stole; I yielded myself to the perfect whole.
In vain produced, all rays return; Evil will bless, and ice will burn.
The God who made New Hampshire Taunted the lofty land With little men.
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly.
There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow.
the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
Unfortunately, nuclear weapons have become identified with state power.
The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone.
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
Though a man cannot abstain from being weak, he may from being vicious.
Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?
There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.
The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.
Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.
I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.
What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.
Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole.
Love is like wildflowers; It's often found in the most unlikely places.
The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living.
The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.
Success to the strongest, who are always, at last, the wisest and best.
Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.
To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.
When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.
Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.
I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-borne treasures home.
One of our statesmen said, "The curse of this country is eloquent men."
And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.
Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me.
Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude.
The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.
American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC
Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.
We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
Cervantes shrewdly advises to lay a bridge of silver for a flying enemy.
'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
It's fun to just skim through piles of books in the stacks of a library.
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.