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The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
How oft review; each finding, like a friend, Something to blame, and something to commend.
There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room.
The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.
Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself.
Who can prove Wit to be witty when with deeper ground Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?
The sun is coming down to earth, and the fields and the waters shout to him golden shouts.
You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.
Pessimism is reactionary because it makes the very idea of improving the world impossible.
It was soon noticed that when ever there was work to be done the cat could never be found.
There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man
The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.
Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.
Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.
Men are mad and gods are madder, she told the grass, and the grass murmured its agreement.
If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it’s a superficial experience isn’t it?
Of course it’s not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.
Has my tale turned you speechless? Come, curse me or kiss me or call me a liar. Something.
Lady," she whimpered softly, wondering if she would meet her wolf again when she was dead.
Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.
We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
You are an atrocious person! Since the day I met you I have become steadily more depraved.
You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence.
One of the mistakes the Germans made ... was that they were not brave enough to be afraid.
Perhaps this is the root of all evil, that gardeners are not put in charge of our schools.
The master swordsman isn't interested in killing people. He only wants to perfect his art.
He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.
It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed.
It is not the purpose of literature to purvey news. For news consult the Almanac de Gotha.
...The silent reminiscence of hardships departed, is sweeter than the presence of delight.
It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.
God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief.
Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.
At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.
Writers in Britain aren't really celebrities. You become kind of a darling of a small set.
How can you be inspired by Cameron and Miliband? These guys are just drabness personified.
A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be.
There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
I'm from outside of Boston, and in Boston, people are so passionate about their Irishness.
Harry found the [tea]... seemed to burn away a little of the fear fluttering in his chest.
There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
He might have crawled up into the airing cupboard and died, but I mustn't get my hopes up.
You will find that I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me.
but the idea of the Dark Lord in possesion of the Deathstick is, I must admit, formidable.
Perfection is not necessary to make a real and lasting difference to other people's lives.