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Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought.
Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.
It must be so, Plato, thou reason'st well!
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Pessimism does win us great happy moments.
Only the insane take themselves seriously.
Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.
We wake from one dream into another dream.
We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.
Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
My doom and my strength is to be solitary.
When it is dark enough, men see the stars.
Accept your genius and say what you think.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
How much of human life is lost in waiting.
Men in all ways are better than they seem.
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
The never-ending task of self improvement.
Happy is the house that shelters a friend.
A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.
All high beauty has a moral element in it.
America means opportunity, freedom, power.
The life of man is a self-evolving circle.
God is Unity, but always works in variety.
There is no true orator who is not a hero.
Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.
We expect a great man to be a good reader.
Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.
[Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom.
Every action has an ancestor of a thought.
When a man meets his make, society begins.
Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.
All men in the abstract are just and good.
Dare to love God without mediator or veil.
The secret of fortune is joy in our hands.
Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake.
The good of a book lies in its being read.
Economics and ethics have little in common.
Pretension is nothing; power is everything.
The secret of happiness is something to do.
No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
A great man is always willing to be little.