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You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.
Between whom there is hearty truth there is love.
We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.
We should impart our courage and not our despair.
Even the best things are not equal to their fame.
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.
You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.
For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself
Every sentence is the result of a long probation.
...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!
Your richest veins don't lie nearest the surface.
Go not to the object; let the object come to you.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
How imperceptibly the first springing takes place!
The only danger in Friendship is that it will end.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
The tavern will compare favorably with the church.
Do not suffer your life to be taken by newspapers.
Poetry cannot breathe in the scholar's atmosphere.
The gods cannot misunderstand, man cannot explain.
How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!
But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself.
Who is old enough to have learned from experience?
You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind.
It is not worth the while to live by rich cookery.
I would that I were worthy to be any man's Friend.
The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
To see wild life you must go forth at wild season.
Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake.
I have not the most definite designs on the future.
Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.
Go confidently ... Live the life that you imagined.
Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.
Do not engage to find things as you think they are.
The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.
If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
Tradition is a more interrupted and feebler memory.
Keep up the fires of thought, and all will go well.
No man ever followed his genius till it misled him.
Of what significance are the things you can forget.
A man's wealth is measured by what he doesn't need.
Nature has no human inhabitant who appreciates her.
Lose the world, get lost in it, and find your soul.
In their daily life, all are braver than they know.
In literature it is only the wild that attracts us.
Wherever men have lived, there is a story to be told