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But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.
The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.
People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.
Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.
The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.
If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.
Naturally, everything depends on one's background books and on what one is looking for.
Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is
It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.
One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking
Science makes no claim to infallibility; it leaves that claim to be made by theologians.
All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
This not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.
Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.
Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.
Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.
The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.
When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.
People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.
People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom.
Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.
To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.
If you act, you show character; if you sit still, you show it; if you sleep you show it.
Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise.
Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.
All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.
The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.
If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist
He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.
Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.
The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.
Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.
Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.
Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.
The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.
Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene.
Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.