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Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.
He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.
He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
My request is not for bliss of the Garden. I only desire to see You.
I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.
'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it.
My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.
William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.
The body is the one thing you can't fake; it's just got to be there.
Don't ask me if life is worth living, live it yourself and find out.
In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin.
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota
The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.
The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.
Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.
Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
All you can hold in your cold dead hand is what you have given away.
Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity.
Love knows no winter; no, no! It is, and remains the sign of spring.
One must be ruthless with one's own writing or someone else will be.
A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she's at rest, and so am I.
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
Learning by study must be won; 'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son.
Children have neither past nor future - they rejoice in the present.
Up from the meadows rich with corn, Clear in the cool September morn
You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.
Zeal and duty are not slow But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.
Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.
Heaven, the seat of bliss, Brooks not the works of violence and war.
Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?
To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.
If I a fancy take To black and blue, That fancy doth it beauty make.
Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence.
The storm: I close my eyes and, standing in it, try to make it mine.
Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.
I love the process of being taken from where I am to somewhere else.
History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.
It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers.
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
Virture offers the only path in this life that leads to tranquility.
It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.
Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart
He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.
A classification is a definition comprising a system of definitions.