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We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go.
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged
What Christian love cannot do is effected by a common hatred.
Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle.
You see, my mind takes me far, but my heart dreams of return.
Love is the key-note of the universe-- The theme, the melody.
All was silent as before - All silent save the dripping rain.
He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.
I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it.
Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice triumphs.
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!
All your strength is in union, all your danger is in discord.
They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again.
Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great.
Good that you ask. You should always ask, always have doubts.
No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish.
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
To carry timber into the wood. [Lat., In silvam ligna ferre.]
How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom.
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
As riches grow, care follows, and a thirst For more and more.
If making money is a slow process, losing it is quickly done.
Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
The green grass floweth like a stream Into the oceans's blue.
A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.
But civlyzation doos git forrid Sometimes upon a powder-cart.
How fine is the mesh of death. You can almost see through it.
Find your own voice & use it, / use your own voice & find it.
That experience which does not make us better makes us worse.
O fateful flower beside the rill- The Daffodil, the daffodil!
France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws (Les Regrets)
Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.
Heaven often smites in mercy, even when the blow is severest.
The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety.
The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.
Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
Young men mend not their sight by using old men's spectacles.
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes.
My whole life Has been a golden dream of love and friendship.
Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.
You can only be called a hypocrite if you judge others first.
In every age and clime we see Two of a trade can never agree.