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Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.
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Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low.
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Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
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Commuter - one who spends his life in riding to and from his wife; And man who shaves and takes a train, and then rides back to shave again.
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Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
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Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
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Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
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Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
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Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.
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Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.
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Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.
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Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man.
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Could man be drunk for ever
With liquor, love, or fights,
Lief should I rouse at mornings
And lief lie down of nights.
But men at whiles are sober
And think by fits and starts,
And if they think, they fasten
Their hands upon their hearts.Source: Last Poems (1922) No. 10, st. 2 -
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
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Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.
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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
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Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.
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Cruel war, war at home; and in the perspective distance, a man on horseback with a drawn sword in his hand, some Atlantic Caesar, or Cromwell, or Napoleon.
Source: On what the impending civil strife would mean to the nation. Speech, Bangor, Maine, 11 January 1860. -
Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.
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