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Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe.
Heaven is not one of your fertile Ohio bottoms, you may depend on it.
It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.
The vessel, though her masts be firm,Beneath her copper bears a worm.
We begin to praise when we begin to see a thing needs our assistance.
One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man.
It is after we get home that we really go over the mountain, if ever.
Fresh curls spring from the baldest brow. There is nothing inorganic.
He listens equally to the prayers of the believer and the unbeliever.
The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
To the sick the doctors wisely recommend a change of air and scenery.
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter
Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground.
Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.
Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness.
The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.
When a soldier is hit by a cannonball, rags are as becoming as purple.
Poetry implies the whole truth. Philosophy expresses a particle of it.
If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere.
We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment.
We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
Work your vein till it is exhausted, or conducts you to a broader one.
Let things alone; let them weigh what they will; let them soar or fall.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.
We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.
Humor, however broad and genial, takes a narrower view than enthusiasm.
Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.
Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service, but not one man.
Faith, indeed, is all the reform that is needed; it is itself a reform.
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.
One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate.
Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.
. . . I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days. . . .
Let go of the past and live the future . . . Live the life you imagined.
The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.
To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating.
As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis.
There are more consequences to a shipwreck than the underwriters notice.
A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.
I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them.
All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story.