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Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. But the tremendous effort needed- one doesn't always want to make it-does one? ... But what else can be done? What's the alternative? What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.
Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent... this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.
The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.
I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
Dust into dust, and under dust, to lie, Sans wine, sans song, sans singer, and - sans end.
God loveth the clean.
The future is a world limited by ourselves-in it we discover only what concerns us.
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
The word "now" is like a bomb thrown through the window, and it ticks.
He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.
Belief is harder to shake than knowledge.
Enthusiasm signifies God in us.
I'm going to spend it all. . . why leave it to our errors?
The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong.
God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.
Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.


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