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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. - [Life] The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this? - [Friends] The perception of beauty is a moral test. - [Beauty] The present hour is always wealthiest when it is poorer than the future ones, as that is the pleasantest site which affords the pleasantest prospect. - [Present] The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the character of individuals. - [Universe] The very thrills of genius are disorganizing. The body is never quite acclimated to its atmosphere, but how often, succumbs and goes into a decline. - [Genius] The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burrs. - [Words] The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them. - [Youth] There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. - [Evil] There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages. - [Matrimony] There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted. - [Corruption] There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect. - [Suspicion] There may be something petty in a refined taste; it easily degenerates into effeminacy. It does not consider the broadest use. It is not content with simple good and bad, and so is fastidious and curious or nice only. - [Taste] This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction. - [Complaining] Those who work much do not work hard. - [Work] Time is but a stream I go a fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom, and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper, fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. - [Time] To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. - [Day] To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. - [Knowledge] Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction. - [Truth] Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. - [Injustice] Water is the only drink for a wise man. - [Water] We are all of us more or less active physiognomists. - [Physiognomy] We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them. - [Face] We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - [Suspicion] We are ashamed of our fear; for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger. - [Fear] Displaying page 6 of 8 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 [6] 7 8
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