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The day we stop resisting our instincts, we'll have learned how to live.
A dead man in Spain is more alive than a dead man anywhere in the world.
Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.
Never read a book to the end, nor even in sequence and without skipping.
I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.
I have lost the consolation of faith/ though not the ambition to worship
In America, people are just so straightforward when they dislike things.
Make this simple rule the guide of your life: to have no will but God's.
To pray is to desire; but it is to desire what God would have us desire.
Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile.
Tell me what your vision of the future and I will tell you what you are.
It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.
Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.
We are too prone to find fault; let us look for some of the perfections.
Tell not thy previous loves to a woman, lest she also telleth thee hers.
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
I had rather ride on an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me.
For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is incompossible.
In a retreat the lame are formost. [In a retreat the lame are foremost.]
The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
Wood halfe burnt is easily kindled. [Wood half-burnt is easily kindled.]
Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest.
The revolution that takes place in your head, nobody will ever see that.
Angel dust won't go away. Somefolks who were smoking it were going away.
You see, I went to the sixth grade and that was the highest I ever went.
Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.
One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, A universal licence to be good.
No talent, but yet a character. [Ger., Kein talent, doch ein Charakter.]
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer, Kisses the blushing leaf.
Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest; Home-keeping hearts are happiest.
A town that boasts inhabitants like me Can have no lack of good society.
To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
Yes, I am going into the woods; I am going into the unity of all things.
Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.
Ardent yet chill and formal, how I ache to tempt a chisel as a sculptor.
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all.
As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits.
If you drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will soon find a way back.
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry.
Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.
Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.
You're closer to your glory leaping an abyss than re-upholstering a rut.
Prayer is spiritual exercise and every act of prayer stretches the soul.