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No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache.
God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.
Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.
A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips.
A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean.
A true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the center of things.
Great conversation ... requires an absolute running of two souls into one.
Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned.
The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.
Character is an invincible force, which acts by presence and without means
Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.
The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.
We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.
An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.
An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel.
Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.
The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.
An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe.
Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.
Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both.
Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder?
Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other.
Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical.
How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon.
but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.
My collection of rare books concerns only books that don't tell the truth.
A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood
Another way of approaching the thing is to consider it unnamed, unnameable.
One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.
Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.
A vast space naturally raises in my thoughts the idea of an Almighty Being.
I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.
As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.
In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school.
A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.
The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.
A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.
Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.
Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.
Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.
Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.
Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.
Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.
Continual failure is a road to success - if you have the strength to go on.