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An aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate. - [Aspiration] And my heart springs anew, Bright and confident and true, And the old love comes to meet me, in the dawning and the dew. - a poem [Love] Away with funeral music--set The pipe to powerful lips-- The cup of life's for him that drinks And not for him that sips. - at Boulogne [Life] Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. - [Beginnings] Every one lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it. - [Salesmanship] Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. - [Consequences] Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. - [Beginnings] For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. - [Travel] Give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself. - [Brain] Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . . - [Gifts] I regard you with an indifference bordering on aversion. - [Aversion] I who all the Winter through, Cherished other loves than you And kept hands with hoary policy in marriage-bed and pew; Now I know the false and true, For the earnest sun looks through, And my old love comes to meet me in the dawning and the dew. - a poem [Love] I, whom Apollo sometime visited, Or feigned to visit, now, my day being done, Do slumber wholly, nor shall know at all The weariness of changes; nor perceive Immeasurable sands of centuries Drink up the blanching ink, or the loud sound Of generations beat the music down. - epitaph for himself [Epitaphs] If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife. - [People] Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. - [Courage] Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers. - [Belief] Make the most of the best and the least of the worst. - [Adaptation] Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords. - [Words] Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted, mostly. - [Cheese] Marriage is like life in this--that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses. - [Matrimony] Now when the number of my years Is all fulfilled and I From sedentary life Shall rouse me up to die, Bury me low and let me lie Under the wide and starry sky. Joying to live, I joyed to die, Bury me low and let me die. - a poem [Epitaphs] Old and young, we are all on our last cruise. - [Life] Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. - [Business] Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. - [Politics] Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. - [Quiet] Displaying page 1 of 4 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4
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