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“Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.”
“All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.”
“That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.”
“The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul”
“Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.”
“How much of human life is lost in waiting.”
“Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.”
“Our strength grows out of our weakness.”
“Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.”
“Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.”
“Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.”
“Language is the archives of history.”
“Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.”
“As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.”
“A friend is the hope of the heart.”
“The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts.”
“Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.”
“We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.”
“There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.”
“My giant goes with me wherever I go.”
“Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.”
“A man often pays dear for a small frugality.”
“The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.”
“Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.”
“Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.”
“We must be our own before we can be another's.”