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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
Money is a great help everywhere; - can't have too much, if you get it honestly.
No matter what you wear, not everyone is going to understand what you're saying.
Touch each object as if tomorrow you would never be able to feel anything again.
emotion without discipline is as dangerous as a high-powered car without brakes.
I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, and I will be a liberal 'til the day I die.
Faith is to rest, not in the best of God's servants, but in His unchanging Word.
It is by avoiding future sin that we retain a remission of the sins of the past.
The reality is that the Lord never calls the qualified; He qualifies the called.
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.
Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.
A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.
A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine.
Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary.
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such.
The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
We cannot put a noose around another man's neck without first hanging ourselves.
Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever.
A man's whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result.
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seedtime of character?
That most sensitive, most delicate of instruments -- the mind of a little child!
Spend as much time as possible, with body and with spirit in God's out-of-doors.
Too dear I prized a fair enchanting face: beauty unchaste is beauty in disgrace.
Marge, when I join an underground cult I expect a little support from my family.
I've always wondered if there was a God. And now I know there is -- and it's me.
In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight.
Everyone knows rock n' roll attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact.
Thou wilt lament Hereafter, when the evil shall be done And shall admit no cure.
The leader, mingling with the vulgar host, Is in the common mass of matter lost.
Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man, Of all things breathing and moving.
down from his brow she ran his curls like thick hyacinth clusters full of blooms
Friendship means to be a strong hand in the dark to another in the time of need.
If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool.
I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely.
A medium Vodka dry Martini - with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred.
Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.
I get up every day, do the best that I can do, and go home and have a good time.
The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
In a happy marriage there is a continuous dense magnetic sense of communication.
I call myself a literary agent simply to distinguish myself from actors' agents.
Wisdom isn't about knowing; it's an understanding that meaning is inexhaustible.
Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted to fact.
Nonsense! The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.
Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
Grip the nettle firmly and it will become a stick with which to beat your enemy.
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
If there were one more thing I could do, it would be to go on safari once again.
Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.