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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
The Infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian Cane.
Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors.
If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share.
The more we run from a problem, the more we're actually running into it.
He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.
The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.
Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.
Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.
It is about your outlook towards life. You can either regret or rejoice.
All that can be done for you is nothing to what you can do for yourself.
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
What goes on around you... compares little with what goes on inside you.
Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All
Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself.
It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.
Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.
Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God.
For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss.
The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.
Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.
Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.
The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.
Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.
Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact.
The lord is the peasant that was, The peasant is the lord that shall be.
The wings of Time are black and white, Pied with morning and with night.
The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.
The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth.
The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
The time never lies heavy upon him; it is impossible for him to be alone.
Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.
I think the world is always going to be as diverse as it always has been.
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.