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He who has great power should use it lightly.
Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
Time heals what reason cannot.
Time discovers truth.
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.
All cruelty springs from weakness.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
In nature all is managed for the best with perfect frugality and just reserve, profuse to none, but bountiful to all; never employing on one thing more than enough, but with exact economy retrenching the superfluous, and adding force to what is principal in everything.
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
As in a theatre, the eyes of m
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.
Sweet are the uses of adversit
'Tis a common proof, that lowliness is Edward Young ambition's ladder, where to the climber upwards turns his face; but when he once attains the utmost round, he then unto the ladder turns his back, looks into the clouds scorning the base degrees by which he did ascend.
Ambition's like a circle on the water, which never ceases to enlarge itself, 'till by broad spreading it disperse to nought.
Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shad
Vaulting ambition which o'er leaps itself.
What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason; how infinite in faculties; in form and moving, how express and admirable! In action, how like an angel; in apprenhension, how like a god; the beauty of the world the paragon of animals! And yet to me what is this quintessence of dust?
Honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar.
My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.
O, he sits high in all the people's hearts; And that which would appear offence in us, His countenance, like richest alchemy, Will change to virtue and to worthiness.
True nobility is exempt from fear.
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired.
They that touch pitch will be defiled.
Men at some time are masters of their fates:<
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.
With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
I do desire we may be better strangers.
Those that are good manners at thecourt are as ridiculed in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable atthe court.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
They do not love that do not show their love.
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
Love is a spirit of all compact of fire.
Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. (As You Like It)
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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
My patience to his fury, and am arm'd to suffer, with a quietness of spirit, the very tyranny and rage of his.
For there was never yet a philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.
There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.
Weariness can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth finds the down pillow hard.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
Thought is free.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
Any person under the age of thirty, who, having any knowledge of the existing social order, is not a revolutionist, is an inferio
I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler. I don't like beer.
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons.
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness and ugliness.
The seven deadly sins...Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes,respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
Just as there are three R's there are also three A's of business life. They are: Ability, Ambition, and Attitude. Ability establishes what a worker does and will bring him a paycheck. Ambition determines how much he does and will get him a raise. Attitude guarantees how well he does.
Airy ambition, soaring high.
Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth.
She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love.
This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.
They only babble who practise not reflection.
There is no armor against fate;<
Immortality--a fate worse than death.
Cats don't adopt people. They adopt refrigerators.
Success is not forever, and failure is not fatal.
The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, the smoke of hell - that monster called Pain.
Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.
The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day. (Matthew 6:34)
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. (John 15:13, KJV)
He that hath knowledge spareth his words. (Proverbs 17:27)
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. (Song of Solomon 8:7)
And all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers. (Luke 2:47)
The peace of God, which passeth all understanding. (Philippians, 4:7)
Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, able to discern between good and evil; for who can govern this your great people? (Hebrew, 1 Kings 3:9)
Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad.
Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality.
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realise the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.
Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
Cultivate peace first in the garden of your heart by removing the weeds of lust, hatred, greed, selfishness, and jealousy. Then only you can manifest it externally. Then only, those who come in contact with you, will be benefited by your vibrations of peace and harmony.
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Money can help you to get medicines but not health. Money can help you to get soft pillows, but not sound sleep. Money can help you to get material comforts, but not eternal bliss. Money can help you to get ornaments, but not beauty. Money will help you to get an electric earphone, but not natural hearing. Attain the supreme wealth, wisdom;you will have everything.
Will is the dynamic soul-force.
I did not direct my life. I didn?t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That?s what life is.
Change can take place only when liberal and radical pressures are both strong. Intelligent liberals have always recognized the debt they owe to radicals, whose existence permits liberals to push further than they would otherwise have dared, all the while posing as compromisers and mediators. Radicals, however, have been somewhat less sensible of their debt to liberals, partly because of the rather single-minded discipline radicals are almost forced to maintain, plagued as they always are by liberal backsliding and timidity on the one hand and various forms of self-destructiveness and romantic posing on the other.... Liberal reforms and radical change are thus complementary rather than antagonistic. Together they make it possible continually to test the limits of what can be done. Liberals never know whether the door is unlocked because they are afraid to try it. Radicals, on the other hand, miss many opportunities for small advances because they are unwilling to settle for so little.
Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
A person over age 65 who drinks says that his doctor recommends it.
If at first you don't succeed, you must be doing something wrong.
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
If thou continuest to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men.
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
Age that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit.
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Bore. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
Corporation: an ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
Conservative: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
Marriage: a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves - making in all two.
One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.
It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made
Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice.
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
A lie never lives to be old.
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
Without labor nothing prospers.
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
Ambition is an idol, on whose wi
Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.
If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster keeps still.
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
For take thy balance if thou be so wise And weigh the wind that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise; Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow.
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.
The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.
Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Understanding is the wages of faith.
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh
Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and I will venture to affirm that no man enjoys either in perfection that does not join both.
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
I cannot give advice. How can I when I do not authorise success. I authorise it alright. Smile.
Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill.
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
Many people have the ambition to succeed in their work; they may even have special aptitude for their job. And yet they do not move ahead. Why? Perhaps they think that since they can master the job, there is no need to master themselves.
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.
A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords
Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
Children are the keys of paradise.
Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. God is Jesus.
Exuberance is beauty.
He who bends to himself a joy<
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it files Lives in eternity's sun rise.
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and only eating the top half of each one.
Never rail at the world, it is just as we make it,- We see not the flower if we sow not the seed; And as for ill-luck, why, it's just as we take it,- The heart that's in earnest no bars can impede.
Time to me this truth has taught, (Tis a treasure worth revealing) More offend from want of thought Than from want of feeling.
Weakness is Death
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.
Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices: so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure which is: Try to please everybody.
No one knows what he can do until hetries.
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
It is a good thing to learn caution by the misfortunes of others.
Fate is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.
The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.
Some remedies are worse than the disease.
It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny.
Each day is the scholar of yesterday.
You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.
Mighty rivers can easily be leaped at their source.
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
The appearance and disappearance of the Universe are pictured as an outbreathing and inbreathing of "the Great Breath," which is eternal, and which, being Motion, is one of the three aspects of the Absolute - Abstract Space and Duration being the other two.
When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.
The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale - and that alone can guide.
Strive with thy thoughts unclean before they overpower thee. Use them as they will thee, for if thou sparest them and they take root and grow, know well, these thoughts will overpower and kill thee. Beware! Suffer not their shadow to approach. For it will grow, increase in size and power, and then this thing of darkness will absorb thy being before thou hast well realized the black foul monster's presence.
The Lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.
Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condenses and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual?s body.
The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only one right way to live only one right way to regulate religious, political, sexual, medical affairs is the root cause of the greatest threat to man: members of his own species, bent on ensuring his salvation, security, and sanity.
Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
A bad peace is even worse than war.
My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read.
Richer is one hour of repentance and good works in this world than all of life of the world to come; and richer is one hour's calm of spirit in the world to come than all of life of this world.
Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.
Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
Everything comes if a man will only wait.
Advice you take from me comes to you crutched<
Property is not theft, but a good deal of theft becomes property.
The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.
Fear is the mother of foresight.
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power.
Revenge...is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings And children's faces looking up Holding wonder like a cup.
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
Ah! curst ambition! to thy lures we o
A bird in the hand is safer thantwo overhead. All courageous animals are carnivorous, and greater courage is to be expected in a people, such as the English, whose food is strong and hearty, than in the half starved commonalty of other countries.
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
I am a part of all that I have met.
All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
Nature, red in tooth and claw.
No rock so hard but a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.
He never sold the truth to serve the hour, Nor paltered with Eternal God for power.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.
You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly.
When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.
I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example of himself.
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor?s art infinite.
I know what love is. It?s understanding. It?s you and me and let the rest of the world go by. Just the two of us living our lives together happily and proudly. No self-torture and no doubt. It?s enduring and it?s everlasting. Nothing can change it. Nothing can change us, Ollie. That?s what I think love is.
If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
The play is done; the curtain dro
?T is said that absence conquers lo
The thrush in my back yard sings down his nose in liquid runs of melody, over and over again, and I have the strongest impression that he does this for his own pleasure. It is a meditative, questioning kind of music, and I cannot believe that he issimply saying "thrush here."
The chambers in the house of dreams Are fed with so divine an air, That Time's hoary wings grow young therein, And they who walk there are most fair.
Nothing begins, and nothing ends, that is not paid with moan; for we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.
'Tis easier for the generous to forgi
Let us have Wine and Women, Mirth and Laughter; Sermons and soda-water the day after.
Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.
By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far moreglorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.
Things do not change, we do.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.
Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
We hate the kindness which we understand.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates.
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Time is but the stream I go a fishing in.
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Few things are brought to a sucessful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
Cunning...is but the low mimic of wisdom.
To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.
Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.
Few ever lived to a great age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.
The road goes ever on and on down fromthe door where it began. Now far ahead the road has gone and I must follow if I can. Pursuing it with weary feet until it joins some larger way, where many paths and errands meet -and whither then, I cannot say.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
For fast acting relief try slowing down.
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
I?m not in business to be loved, but I am in business.
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within.
Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.
Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
There is nothing more difficult to carry out and more doubtful of success than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all who prosper by the old order.
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and forever.
Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws.
The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.
There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
There has never been an intelligent person of the age of sixty who would consent to live his life over again. His or anyone else
The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.
If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
Man is the only man that blushes. Or needs to.
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it?and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again?and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods; it remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate.
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
When in doubt tell the truth.
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.
We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.
To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
The educated Southerner has no use for an 'R', except at the beginning of a word.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.
There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.
I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untax
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?
There is an old-time toast which is golden for its beauty. "When you ascend the hill of prosperity may you not meet a friend.
Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
When it comes to winning, you need the skill and the will.
To laugh with others is one of life's great pleasures. To be laughed at by others is one of life's great hurts.
Ability lies in the mind and the heart. To tell your mind to limit your abilities a
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
No one ever injured their eyesight from looking on the bright side of things.
Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
Age isn't important unless you're a cheese.
An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin forone dollar, and use it up in two weeks.
A chronic disposition to inquiry deprives domestic felines of vital qualities.
Cats are like Baptists. They raise hell but you can't catch them at it.
What garlic is to food, insanity is to art.
A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this.
Cats aren't clean, they're just covered with cat spit.
Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God.
There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.
A child is a gift from God. He is not an accident or a consequence.
Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together.
What you see depends on what you're looking for.
More important than how we live is how we spend each day.
The only way to see a rainbow is to look through the rain.
Many people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.
A smile is a light in the window of your face to show your heart is at home.
Knowledge is not achieved until shared.
Love is what the heart needs.
If it's wrong to love you, then my heart just wont let me be right.
Love is perfect, even when we are not.
A heart that loves is always young.
Love is knowing that you want to spend the rest ofyour life with someone, and not knowing if they want to spend it with you.
There is only one sort of love but there are athousand of copies.
Love doesn't cause pain, people do.
Love is very real, you will find it someday, but it has one enemy-and that's life.
Love. What is love? No one can define it, its something so great, only God could design it. Yes, love is beyond, what man can define, for love is immortal, and God's gift is divine.
If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.
No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
I have to admit that I fell in love twice. First was with you and the second was with the person you became when you were already mine.
You miss one hundred percent of the shots you never take!
He who never fell never climbed.
Success is more attitude then aptitude.
If you're not five minutes early, you're ten minutes late.
A minute now is better than a minute later.
Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like an orange.
Who sees all beings in his own Self, and his own Self in all beings, loses all fear.
This is the truth: As from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.
Ignorant of their ignorance, yet wise In their own esteem, these deluded men, Proud of their vain learning, go round and round Like the blind led by the blind. Far beyond Their eyes, hypnotized by the world of sense, Opens the way to immortality.
As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.
The Soul is made of consciousness and mind; it is made of life and vision. It is made of the earth and the waters; it is made of air and space. It is made of light and darkness; it is made of desire and peace. It is made of anger and love; it is made of virtue and vice. It is made of all that is near; it is made of all that is afar. It is made of all.
As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
Know thou the self (spirit) as riding in a chariot, The body as the chariot. Know thou the intellect as the chariot-driver, And the mind as the reins. The senses, they say, are the horses; The objects of sense, what they range over. The self combined with senses and mind Wise men call "the enjoyer."
Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one?s obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. (on J.D. Salinger)
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Men take only their needs into consideration never their abilities.
A poem is never finished only abandoned
Time is of the essence, but what is the essence of time?
Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy.
There was neither non-existence nor existence then; there was neither the realm of space nor the sky beyond. There was no distinguishing sign of night nor of day. That One breathed, windless, by its own impulse. Other than that there was nothing beyond. Darkness was hidden by darkness in the beginning; with no distinguishing sign, all this was water. The life force that was, was covered with emptiness, that one arose through the power of heat. Desire came upon that one in the beginning; that was the first seed of mind.
The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
Age carries all things away, even the mind.
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
There is no ache more deadly than the striving to be oneself.
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time - but most of the time they will make fools of themselves.
Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.
To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.
As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts.
When is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.
War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
...The eternal vital power builds them in the likeness of older worlds, placing them on the Imperishable Centres. How does he build them? He collects the fiery dust. He makes balls of fire, runs through them, and round them, infusing life there into, then sets them into motion; some one way, some the other way. They are cold, he makes them hot. They are dry, he makes them moist. They shine, he fans and cools them. Thus he acts from one twilight to the other, during Seven Eternities.
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.
Discovery consists in seeing whateveryone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.
To save all we must risk all.
Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.
The only way to succeed is to make people hate you. That way, they remember you.
Success is relevant to coping with obstacles... But no problem is ever solved by those, who, when they fail, look for someone to blame instead of something to do.
Today the man who is the real risk-taker is anonymous and nonheroic. He is the one trying to make institutions work.
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.... Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
To speak of "limits to growth" under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society. The moral pieties, that are voiced today by many well meaning environmentalists, are as naive as the moral pieties of multinationals are manipulative. Capitalism can no more be "persuaded" to limit growth than a human being can be "persuaded" to stop breathing. Attempts to "green" capitalism, to make it "ecological", are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.
It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence - it is force.
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
Enriched beyond the dreams of any normal person?s avarice, she accumulated possessions with a single-minded lust that calls to mind those ancient Romans who gorged themselves, then vomited so they could gorge again.
The configuration of my nervous system, like the configuration of the stars, happens of itself, and this 'itself' is the real 'myself.' From this standpoint here language reveals its limitations with a vengeance I find that I cannot help doing and experiencing, quite freely, what is always 'right,' in the sense that the stars are always in their 'right' places.
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
There's always room at the top.
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.
The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
...advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was out there, into an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. These are two substantially different kinds of human enterprise.
Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you?re boned, what?s left to create the illusion? Let ?em wonder. I never believed in givin? them too much of me.
I was pure as the driven snow, then I drifted.
Too much of a good thing can be taxing.
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
A man is called selfish, not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting the neighbor's.
All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider's web?
The future ... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.
O to be self balanced for contingencies! O to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs as trees and animals do!
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained.
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself (I am large, I contain multitudes).
I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
Unknown to her the rigid rule, The dull restraint, the chiding frown The weary torture of the school, The taming of wild nature down.
Thirty-five is a very attractive age, London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.
Show respect for age. Drink good scotch for a change. The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
I don't desire to change anything in England except the weather.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
A Cynic is one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!
Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.
When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Only the shallow know themselves.
Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
Moderation is a fatal thing nothing succeeds like excess.
Ambition is the last refuge of failure.
Experience is the name that everyone gives to his mistakes.
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
A bird in the hand is dead.
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
What is ambition? 'Tis a glorious cheat. Angels of light walk not so dazzlingly the sapphire walls of heaven.
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
Nothing recedes like success.
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
Of what one cannot speak of that one must keep silent.
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
The tendency to believe that things never change, the inertia of daily existence, is a staple of living. It has always been a delusion.
We should never ever doubt what nobody is sure about.
We are thu music makers, the dreamers of dreams.
Marriage is just legalized prostitution. Any man who says he hasn't paid for sex, has never been married!
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
What is pride? A whizzing rocket that would emulate a star.
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for awhile I was a suspect.
A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.
Go, go to your business, I say, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.