We have first raised a dust, and then complain, we cannot see.
Every action is an encroachment on the future.
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
It is a common saying, that the deceiver lies at the mercy of the deceived;
These simple acts make man simple; and how difficult it is to be simple!
There should be, in every polity, a centre of resistance to the predominent power in the constitution - and in a democratic constitution, therefore, a nucleus of resistance to the democracy.
Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.
To know is to know that one knows.
Joy always announces that life has succeeded, gained ground, conquered. All great joy has a triumphant note.
Above all things, one should maintain his self-respect, and there is but one way to do that, and that is to live in accordance with your highest ideal.
No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.
Great things are accomplished by men who are not conscious of the impotence of man. Such insensitiveness is precious.
The essential job is to get people to recognise war propaganda when they see it, especially when it is disguised as peace propaganda.
All men are interdependent. Every nation is an heir of a vast treasury of ideas and labor to which both the living and the dead of all nations have contributed.
Love or hate alters the face of justice.
Oh that so many pitchers of rough clay Should prosper and the porcelain break in two!
Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.
In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools for making tools, and of indefinitely varying the manufacture.
Ah, who brings the happy moments, Glorious days of sweet first love; Who can bring back a single hour Of that blessed time again.
Nature has pointed out a mixed kind of life as most suitable to the human race, and secretly admonished them to allow none of these biases to draw too much, so as to incapacitate them for other occupations and entertainments.
I want to make one thing absolutely clear. I am not a Zen Buddhist, I am not advocating Zen Buddhism, I am not trying to convert anyone to it. I have nothing to sell. I'm an entertainer. That is to say, in the same sense, that when you go to a concert and you listen to someone play Mozart, he has nothing to sell except the sound of the music. He doesn’t want to convert you to anything. He doesn’t want you to join an organization in favor of Mozart's music as opposed to, say, Beethoven's. And I approach you in the same spirit as a musician with his piano or a violinist with his violin. I just want you to enjoy a point of view that I enjoy.
If a man cannot enjoy the return of spring, why should he be happy in a labour-saving Utopia? What will he do with the leisure that the machine will give him?
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
It is desire that creates the desirable, it is the project that poses the end.
Extreme justice is often an insult.
One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.
Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.
Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
My library was dukedom large enough.
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