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It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone. - [Pleasure] It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. - [Talking] It was his nature to blossom into song, as it is a tree's to leaf itself in April. - [Songs] Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at. - [Poverty] Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England! - [England] Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps. - [Pleasure] Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market. - [Pride] Speak no harsh, words of earth; she is our mother, and few of us her sons who have not added a wrinkle to her brow. - [Earth] Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature. - [Style] The garrulous sea is talking to the shore; let us go down and hear the graybeard's speech. - [Sea] The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time. - [Greatness] The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself. - [Individuality] The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other. - [Purity] The only thing a man knows is himself. - [Self-knowledge] The peasant thanked her with their tears, When food and clothes were given; "This is a joy," the lady said, "Saints cannot taste in heaven." - [Proverbs] The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore-- A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, That blushed a tell-tale. - [Ocean] The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world. - [Greatness] There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury. - [Injury] Thoughts must come naturally, like wild-flowers; they cannot be forced in a hot-bed, even although aided by the leaf-mould of your past. - [Thought] To bring the best human qualities to anything like perfection, to fill them with the sweet juices of courtesy and charity, prosperity, or, at all events, a moderate amount of it, is required,--just as sunshine is needed for the ripening of peaches and apricots. - [Prosperity] To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud. - [Death] To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation. - [Art] To-day is always different from yesterday. - [Today] Trees are your best antiques. - [Trees] Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life. - [Trifles] Displaying page 2 of 3 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3
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