• Thought and Reason

  The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

  4.9 · 8 votes · 199 reads

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• Virtues

  The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

  3.1 · 13 votes · 170 reads

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• Society

  The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

  4.4 · 42 votes · 163 reads

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• Virtues

  The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

  4.5 · 23 votes · 82 reads

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• Art and Culture

  The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

  3.2 · 33 votes · 134 reads

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• Defects

  The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

  3.8 · 42 votes · 110 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  The soul's emphasis is always right.

  3.7 · 38 votes · 144 reads

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• Art and Culture

  The studious class are their own victims: they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption -pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism.

  4.6 · 5 votes · 72 reads

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• Government and Politics

  The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

  3.1 · 8 votes · 72 reads

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• Various

  The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.

  3.2 · 36 votes · 69 reads

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• Government and Politics

  The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.

  4.1 · 45 votes · 82 reads

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• Feelings

  The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

  4.4 · 26 votes · 93 reads

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• Society

  The world is his who has money to go over it.

  3.6 · 28 votes · 163 reads

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• Various

  The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.

  5.0 · 22 votes · 120 reads

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• Art and Culture

  The years teach us much the days never knew.

  3.3 · 31 votes · 76 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Them meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

  3.7 · 8 votes · 47 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

  3.2 · 40 votes · 96 reads

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• Art and Culture

  There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.

  3.1 · 31 votes · 58 reads

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• Various

  There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

  3.8 · 54 votes · 125 reads

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• Virtues

  There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

  4.3 · 31 votes · 28 reads

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• Feelings

  There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says, ''Anywhere but here.''

  3.4 · 10 votes · 73 reads

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• Government and Politics

  There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

  4.5 · 33 votes · 81 reads

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• Society

  There is a crack in everything God has made.

  3.1 · 59 votes · 167 reads

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• Nature

  There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

  3.2 · 64 votes · 72 reads

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• Art and Culture

  There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

  3.2 · 52 votes · 73 reads

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• Virtues

  There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

  5.0 · 29 votes · 47 reads

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• Various

  There is always a best way of doing everything.

  4.3 · 54 votes · 175 reads

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• Art and Culture

  There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

  3.9 · 18 votes · 181 reads

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• Government and Politics

  There is no knowledge that is not power.

  3.1 · 36 votes · 117 reads

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• Art and Culture

  There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed

  4.5 · 57 votes · 76 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

  3.1 · 30 votes · 25 reads

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• Society

  There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

  4.5 · 34 votes · 103 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

  4.7 · 39 votes · 122 reads

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• Various

  There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels,

  3.3 · 45 votes · 139 reads

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• Art and Culture

  There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as

  3.9 · 12 votes · 2 reads

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• Virtues

  There is this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means; draw it all out, and hold him to it.

  3.4 · 50 votes · 104 reads

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• Society

  There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

  3.1 · 52 votes · 123 reads

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• Time

  There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

  4.5 · 10 votes · 101 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

  4.8 · 61 votes · 165 reads

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• Virtues

  This gives force to the strong - that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action.

  3.9 · 59 votes · 100 reads

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