“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one”
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“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one”
“My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere”
“As the air to a bird or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible”
“The essentials to happiness are something to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
“But to us, probability is the very guide of life”
“Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy”
“Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman”
“Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us”
“One faces the future with one's past”
“Order is the shape upon which beauty depends”
“If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday”
“Growth itself contains the germ of happiness”
“There are only two ways of getting on in the world either by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of others”
“Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life”
“How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win”
“The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also”
“Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.”
“As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.”
“The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you”
“Beauty is truth, and truth is beauty”