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Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.
Politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.
The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.
It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor.
Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.
Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.
An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.
I want to love, but my hair smells of war and running and running.
I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time.
Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.
Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.
The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it
There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.
Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.
Everybody must seem crazy if you see deep enough into their minds.
Every Christian a missionary; every non-Christian a mission-field.
Suddenly the world has run amok and left you alone and sane behind
We Nigerians must reclaim our sovereignty, our civic entitlements.
Why was everyone dying? They had all been so alive just yesterday.
Fluid and energetic and wild very, very smart and very, very funny.
Has it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes?
We treat this world of ours as though we have a spare in the trunk.
Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!
A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.
So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
To change is to be vulnerable. And to be vulnerable is to be alive.
If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.
Never trust a man who combs his hair straight from his left armpit.
If you have nothing good to say about anyone, come and sit with me.
Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.
Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.
Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.
I still have the same friends I've had for the last 15 or 20 years.
He kissed me desperately, like a drowning man and I was his oxygen.
Aurora is right,” Willa said, sounding sad to be agreeing with her.
Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.
True joy of nature is when every drop of water shines like a pearl.
I love you on the surface of seas Red like the egg when it is green