Wouldn't a sailor laugh at you if you told him that the whole crossing depends on the first turn of the helm?
A philosophy should be portable.
We do not suffer from things to which we are accustomed.
There are dreams that are pure poems.
Let us atone for the fault with speed: the hearts of good men admit of atonement.
They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.
When we are not intelligible, we are not intelligent.
All flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
As one might say of me that I have only made here a collection of other people's flowers, having provided nothing of my own but the cord to bind them together.
Let us consider the way in which we spend our lives.
The world is independent of my will.
Essence is expressed in grammar.
And how great soever a Man's Talents may be, unless they be cultivated, they are but half-talents.
Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.
The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own.
Life is more beautiful than caution.
Science does not think and cannot think; indeed, that is what constitutes its chance, that which secures its own way of proceeding.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.
Those whom we can love, we can hate to others we are indifferent.
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
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