posted October 22, 2010 12:47 PM
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Children are all foreigners.
Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
God enters by a private door into every individual.
He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air…
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.
The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
The world belongs to the energetic.
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.
Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
We all boil at different degrees.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
When you strike at a king, you must kill him.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Hitch your wagon to a star.
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
Every artist was first an amateur.
The highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
As soon as there is life there is danger.
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Lindaland
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