Do you mind if I sit back a little? Because your breath is very bad.
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
Thomas Carlyle
A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.
George Eliot
Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
Ambrose Bierce
But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.
I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.
Victor Hugo
Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
Napoleon Hill
Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we're so fond of it.
But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.
A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.
Thomas Jefferson
There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer --committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.
The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers.
Dave Barry
Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.
With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.
George Eliot, Middlemarch
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: --in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.
Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change --only to give stability to one beautiful moment.
It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
Blows are sarcasm's turned stupid.
In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.
It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?
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