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Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
I believe I've found the missing link between animal and civilized man. It is us.
We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo.
The body never lies.
It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later.
None think the great unhappy, but the great.
The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for movie stars.
The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.
Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
If solid happiness we prize, within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam; the world has nothing to bestow, From our own selves our bliss must flow, And that dear hut-our home.
I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
Skill to do comes of doing.
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for the training of a mere beginner.
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
'Sartor Resartus' is simply unreadable, and for me that always sort of spoils a book.


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