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To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.
If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.
A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.
I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.
The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.
Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be.
One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others.
There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love.
Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it.
What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.
There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.
Old truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them.
I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words with out a heart.
The white woman has never had the co-equal status that the African woman has had.
Tis not the robe or garment I affect; For who would marry with a suit of clothes?
Who is wurs shod, than the shoemakers wyfe,With shops full of shoes all hir lyfe?
When adversities flow, then love ebbs; but friendship standeth stiffly in storms.
Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.
We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth.
They can kill the Kennedys. Why can't they make a cup of coffee that tastes good?
You know people don't get better as we get older- we just get more of who we are.
In public schooling, social policy has been turned back almost one hundred years.
It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.
She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes
I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
I wanted to hit him. I wanted to hold him. I wanted to shout myself into his ear.
I did not need to know if he could love me. I needed to know if he could need me.
I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
When I write, I make my memories tangible, and in this way I can get rid of them.
I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.
When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.
I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
What's made up in the head is the fiction. What comes out of the heart is a myth.
The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed.
There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.
Heroism is a matter of integrity--beco ming more and more at each step ourselves.
I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.
Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.
Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter.
He, who praises you for what you have not, wishes to take from you what you have.
In the end, leadership is not intellectual or cognitive. Leadership is emotional.
We have one life to live - and one chance to live it in the richest way possible.
Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.
This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.
But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life’s business.
If you get yourself killed, I'll find your grave and spit on it," she threatened.
I thought of betrayal and how it came so easily - in a word, a glance, a gesture.
The people I know who would support [Donald] Trump are keeping their mouths shut.