Quotes 121 till 140 of 286.
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How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
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However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.
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Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.
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I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of God, is his private ail. Let this be righted, let the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsake his generous companions without apology.
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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
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I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced. Extravagance! it depends on how you are yarded.
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I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.
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I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.
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I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
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I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
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I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.
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I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.
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I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.
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I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
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I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.
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I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.
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I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.
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I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.
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I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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