There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system it could be a lot of different things.
An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.
The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.
Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles some thought of love! Then, Jack, her cheeks! her cheeks, Jack! so deeply blushing at the insinuations of her tell-tale eyes! Then, Jack, her lips! O, Jack, lips smiling at their own discretion! and, if not smiling, more sweetly pouting -- more lovely in sullenness! Then, Jack, her neck! O, Jack, Jack!
I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning; I don't think so much learning becomes a young woman: for instance, I would never let her meddle with Greek, or Hebrew, or algebra, or simony, or fluxions, or paradoxes, or such inflammatory branches of learning; nor will it be necessary for her to handle any of your mathematical, astronomical, diabolical instruments; but... I would send her, at nine years old, to a boarding-school, in order to learn a little ingenuity and artifice: then, sir, she would have a supercilious knowledge in accounts, and, as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries: this is what I would have a woman know; and I don't think there is a superstitious article in it.
What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.
Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.
Thought makes every thing fit for use.
A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.
A man's what he thinks about all day long
We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.
The surest poison is time.
So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.
The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.
We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.
I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable -- any real insight or broad human sentiment.
I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
Travel is a fools paradise.
No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.
The highest compact we can make with our fellow is --Let there be truth between us two forevermore.
Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
Night is the mother of counsels.
George Herbert
Every American ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be treated. this is not the case.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The basis of effective government if public confidence.
True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.
It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.
Life is unfair.
We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.
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