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If you wished to be loved, love.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
Time heals what reason cannot.
Time discovers truth.
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.
All cruelty springs from weakness.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
In nature all is managed for the best with perfect frugality and just reserve, profuse to none, but bountiful to all; never employing on one thing more than enough, but with exact economy retrenching the superfluous, and adding force to what is principal in everything.
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
As in a theatre, the eyes of m
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.
Sweet are the uses of adversit
'Tis a common proof, that lowliness is Edward Young ambition's ladder, where to the climber upwards turns his face; but when he once attains the utmost round, he then unto the ladder turns his back, looks into the clouds scorning the base degrees by which he did ascend.
Ambition's like a circle on the water, which never ceases to enlarge itself, 'till by broad spreading it disperse to nought.
Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shad
Vaulting ambition which o'er leaps itself.
What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason; how infinite in faculties; in form and moving, how express and admirable! In action, how like an angel; in apprenhension, how like a god; the beauty of the world the paragon of animals! And yet to me what is this quintessence of dust?
Honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar.
My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.
O, he sits high in all the people's hearts; And that which would appear offence in us, His countenance, like richest alchemy, Will change to virtue and to worthiness.
True nobility is exempt from fear.
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired.
They that touch pitch will be defiled.
Men at some time are masters of their fates:<
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.
With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
I do desire we may be better strangers.
Those that are good manners at thecourt are as ridiculed in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable atthe court.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
They do not love that do not show their love.
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
Love is a spirit of all compact of fire.
Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. (<u>As You Like It</u>)
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; <
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, <
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
My patience to his fury, and am arm'd to suffer, with a quietness of spirit, the very tyranny and rage of his.
For there was never yet a philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.
There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.
Weariness can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth finds the down pillow hard.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
Thought is free.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
Any person under the age of thirty, who, having any knowledge of the existing social order, is not a revolutionist, is an inferio
I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler. I don't like beer.
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons.
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness and ugliness.
The seven deadly sins...Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes,respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
Just as there are three R's there are also three A's of business life. They are: Ability, Ambition, and Attitude. Ability establishes what a worker does and will bring him a paycheck. Ambition determines how much he does and will get him a raise. Attitude guarantees how well he does.
Airy ambition, soaring high.
Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth.
She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love.
This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.
They only babble who practise not reflection.
There is no armor against fate;<
Immortality--a fate worse than death.
Cats don't adopt people. They adopt refrigerators.
Success is not forever, and failure is not fatal.
The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, the smoke of hell - that monster called Pain.
Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.

If you wished to be loved, love.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.

Time heals what reason cannot.

Time discovers truth.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

In nature all is managed for the best with perfect frugality and just reserve, profuse to none, but bountiful to all; never employing on one thing more than enough, but with exact economy retrenching the superfluous, and adding force to what is principal in everything.

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

As in a theatre, the eyes of m

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.

Sweet are the uses of adversit

'Tis a common proof, that lowliness is Edward Young ambition's ladder, where to the climber upwards turns his face; but when he once attains the utmost round, he then unto the ladder turns his back, looks into the clouds scorning the base degrees by which he did ascend.

Ambition's like a circle on the water, which never ceases to enlarge itself, 'till by broad spreading it disperse to nought.

Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shad

Vaulting ambition which o'er leaps itself.

What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason; how infinite in faculties; in form and moving, how express and admirable! In action, how like an angel; in apprenhension, how like a god; the beauty of the world the paragon of animals! And yet to me what is this quintessence of dust?

Honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar.

My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.

O, he sits high in all the people's hearts; And that which would appear offence in us, His countenance, like richest alchemy, Will change to virtue and to worthiness.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired.

They that touch pitch will be defiled.

Men at some time are masters of their fates:<

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

Those that are good manners at thecourt are as ridiculed in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable atthe court.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

They do not love that do not show their love.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

Love is a spirit of all compact of fire.

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. (<u>As You Like It</u>)

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; <

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, <

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

My patience to his fury, and am arm'd to suffer, with a quietness of spirit, the very tyranny and rage of his.

For there was never yet a philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

Weariness can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth finds the down pillow hard.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

Thought is free.

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Any person under the age of thirty, who, having any knowledge of the existing social order, is not a revolutionist, is an inferio

I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler. I don't like beer.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness and ugliness.

The seven deadly sins...Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes,respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

Just as there are three R's there are also three A's of business life. They are: Ability, Ambition, and Attitude. Ability establishes what a worker does and will bring him a paycheck. Ambition determines how much he does and will get him a raise. Attitude guarantees how well he does.

Airy ambition, soaring high.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth.

She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love.

This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

They only babble who practise not reflection.

There is no armor against fate;<

Immortality--a fate worse than death.

Cats don't adopt people. They adopt refrigerators.

Success is not forever, and failure is not fatal.

The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, the smoke of hell - that monster called Pain.

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.