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Art is a jealous mistress.
The essence of good government is trust.
Things are in the saddle. And ride mankind.
The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.
In wildness is the preservation of the world.
Advertising is the very essence of democracy.
The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.
Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Everything may serve a lower as well as a higher use.
We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.
There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
Even from the darkest night songs of beauty can be born.
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.
The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.
As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.
The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.
Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.
Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.
The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.
Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary.
Every man is entitled to come to Cattle-Show, even a transcendentalist; and for my part I am more interested in the men than in the cattle.
I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.
You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.
Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.
What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.
The so-called Transcendentalists are not the only people who deal in Transcendentals. On the contrary, we seem to see that the Utilitarians,--the every-day world's people themselves, far transcend those inferior Transcendentalists by their own incomprehensible worldly maxims.
Surely, we are provided with senses as well fitted to penetrate the spaces of the real, the substantial, the eternal, as these outward are to penetrate the material universe. Veias, Menu, Zoroaster, Socrates, Christ, Shakespeare, Swedenborg,--these are some of our astronomers.