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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Going home must be like going to render an account.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.
- Heap
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- Nov 07, 2020
This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.
- Farther
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.
- Loneliness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020