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Thoughts and Thinking |
| One thought fills immensity.
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Opposition |
| Opposition is true friendship.
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Punishment |
| Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
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Prudence |
| Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
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Sorrow |
| Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, and they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals and is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, and if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.
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Jews and Judaism |
| That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.
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Friends and Friendship |
| The bird, a nest; the spider, a web; man, friendship.
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Nature |
| The cistern contains: The fountain overflows.
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Forgiveness |
| The cut worm forgives the plow.
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Wisdom |
| The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
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Empires |
| The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
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Generations |
| The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.
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Christians and Christianity |
| The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
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Luck |
| The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.
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Time and Time Management |
| The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.
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Respect |
| The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.
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Opinion |
| The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
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Excess |
| The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
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Fame |
| The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.
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Wisdom |
| The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
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Nature |
| The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
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Cunning |
| The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
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Despair |
| Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.
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Rules |
| Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
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Jesus Christ |
| Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Christ, I cannot help saying: "the Son, O how unlike the Father!" First God Almighty comes with a thump on the head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it.
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Friends and Friendship |
| Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.
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Fools and Foolishness |
| A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
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Truth |
| A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
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Future |
| All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.
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Candor |
| Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
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Arts and Artists |
| Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
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Character |
| As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
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Bible |
| Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
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Compassion |
| Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
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Christians and Christianity |
| Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.
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Business |
| Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.
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Humanity |
| Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the Human Dress. The Human Dress is forged Iron, The Human Form a Fiery Forge, The Human Face a Furnace sealed, The Human Heart its hungry gorge.
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Sex and Sexuality |
| Embraces are comminglings from the head even to the feet, and not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place.
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Energy |
| Energy is an eternal delight. He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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Eternity |
| Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
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Innocence |
| Every harlot was a virgin once.
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Service |
| Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself.
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Sorrow |
| Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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Idleness |
| Expect poison from standing water.
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Beauty |
| Exuberance is beauty.
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Truth |
| For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.
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Life and Living |
| For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
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Fun |
| Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
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Challenges |
| Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street.
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Joy |
| He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.
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