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People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.
Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.
Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.
But marriage is one long sacrifice.... Chapter 21, Medora Manson speaking to Newland Archer
A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her hearts inspiration.
Nothing lasts in New York. The life that is lived there, however, is as intense as it gets.
I suppose it is a gift, being young, but it isn't special. We've all got it, early in life.
The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it
The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.
O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.
No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.
From my apartment in Arlington, I could see Washington. It was always nice to be near home.
it is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor.
It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?
It isn't given to us to see ends. We can only attend to the beginnings and make them right.
The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose
The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.
There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.
I left advertising as fast as I could in 1961. And I haven't ever thought about going back.
There are 500 million people on Facebook, but what are they saying to each other? Not much.
Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.
Never shall I recollect the occasion he gave me of displeasure, without feeling it renewed.
To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.
I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.
I suppose we all have our recollections of our earlier holidays, all bristling with horror.
I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.
Someone once told me years ago that there was nothing so dead as a warmed-over love affair.
originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.
Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.
She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it .
Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.
Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.
They say it only takes an instant to have a dream; a dream can be compressed into hardtack.
The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
The higher life begins for us ... when we renounce our own will to bow before a Divine law.
How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Could I find a place to be alone with heaven, I would speak my heart out heaven is my need.
All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
Anyone who knows of a provable instance of colour discrimination ought always to expose it.
Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.
It is being common-born that is dangerous, when the great lords play their game of thrones.
There are ghosts everywhere," Ser Jorah said softly. "We carry them with us wherever we go.
I have the virtue of being still amongst the living. Some would say that is my only virtue.
Sometimes there is no happy choice, Sam, only one less grievous than the others. - Jon Snow