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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up the rest.
And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
But far more numerous was the herd of stfch, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
Don't move! I want to forget you just the way you are.
No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.
Life is the only art that we are required to practise without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for the training of a mere beginner.
Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal, but by the grandness of effort involved in getting there-or failing to get there.
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell.
Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best.
Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.
If a person gives you his time, he can give you no more precious gift.
Best trust the happy moments. ... The days that make us happy make us wise.
Heaven for climate, hell for company.
You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture - and very much to our credit.
Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.
In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use English for literature, Scotch for sermons, and American for conversation.
Few rich men own their own property. Their property owns them.


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