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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.
Source: A Time for Moral Courage, Readers Digest (July 1964) -
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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Crime shapes how we think about the world; it shapes social decisions that we make; it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently.
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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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Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
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Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.
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Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
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Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.
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Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.
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Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products out of it.
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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.
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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.
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Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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