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Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.
There is no ill which may not be dissipated, like the dark, if you let in a stronger light upon it.
The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.
All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences.
As the stars looked to me when I was a shepherd in Assyria, they look to me now as a New-Englander.
We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man.
Let Harlequin be taken with a fit of the colic, and his trappings will have to serve that mood too.
It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time.
Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.
Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.
In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.
But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost.
The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.
Surely the writer is to address a world of laborers, and such therefore must be his own discipline.
We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
Be grateful for the tiny details of your life and make room for unexpected and beautiful blessings.
Man's conditioning has been so powerful that It has all but distroyed his ability to be self aware.
It's strange how few of the world's great problems are solved by people who remember their algebra.
I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.
All right, let's not panic. I'll make the money by selling one of my livers. I can get by with one.
The most direct and practical method of self-development is to achieve yourself by your own effort.
No friendship has done its work until it reaches the supremest satisfaction of spiritual communion.
In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.
Meditation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.
Spiritual life and secure life do not go together; to save oneself on must struggle and take risks.
The State always stands for swindling, intrigue, and privilege, and cannot stand for anything else.
I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.
Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job.
Politically popular speech has always been protected: even the Jews were free to say ‘Heil Hitler.’
Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them.
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark
No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world.
nobody ever stops drinking until the cost of drinking becomes higher than the cost of not drinking.
Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul.
For the European Union, Russia is as important politically and economically as China is to the U.S.
Don't ever forget your history," she sang, "or any wicked soul can lie to you and get away with it.
Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.
Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice.
But, come to think of it, there was no need to wait. Time travelers don't have to wait for anybody.
One gets the impression that this is how Ernest Hemingway would have written had he gone to Vassar.
The most important job you have is growing your people, giving them a chance to reach their dreams.
HR should be every company's killer app. What could possibly be more important than who gets hired?
Dance, my darling dance! If you dance then death can't catch you! Nothing bad can touch you! Dance!
Chemistry is a gibberish of Latin and German; but in Leibig's hands it becomes a powerful language.
The only way to remain great is to keep on applying the fundamental principles that made you great.
The future is a trickster rabbit, full of surprises. Only the past is predictable. -Bobby Goodspeed