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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye. - [Silence] The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect. - [Action] The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. *` * * They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others; and they show us the web of experience, but with a singular change--that monstrous, consuming ego of ours being, nonce, struck out. - [Fiction] There is no duty we underrate so much as the duty of being happy. - [Duty : Happiness] To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. - [Growth] To know that you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. - [Individualism] To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden. - [Love] To me there is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. - [Duty] Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity. - [Truth] Wine is bottled poetry. - [Wine and Spirits] It is very nice to think The world is full of meat and drink With little children saying grace In every Christian kind of place. - A Child's Garden of Verses, "A Thought" [Childhood] In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer, quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. - A Child's Garden of Verses, "Bed in Summer" [Childhood] When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys. - A Child's Garden of Verses, "Looking Forward" [Childhood] Every night my prayers I say, And get my dinner every day, And every day that I've been good, I get an orange after food. - A Child's Garden of Verses, "System" [Childhood] The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might To eat with apple-tart. - A Child's Garden of Verses, "The Cow" [Cows] While here at home, in shining day, We round the sunny garden play, Each little Indian sleepy-head Is being kissed and put to bed. - A Child's Garden of Verses, "The Sun's Travels" [Childhood] The 25th day of August, 1751, about two in the afternoon, I, David Balfour, came forth of the British Linen Company, a porter attending me with a bag of money, and some of the chief of these merchants bowing me from their doors. Two days before, and even as yestermorning, I was like a beggar-man by the wayside, clad in rags, brought down to my last shillings, my companion a condemned traitor, a price set on my own head for a crime with the news of which the country rang. To-day I was served heir to my position in life, a landed laird, a bank porter by me carrying my gold, recommendations in my pocket, and (in the words of the saying) ball directly at my foot. - Catriona (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take, And stab my spirit broad awake; Or, Lord, if too obdurate I, Choose Thou, before that spirit die, A piercing paid, a killing sin, And to my dead heart turn them in. - Celestial Surgeon [Prayer] Here lies one who meant well, tried a little, failed much. - Christmas Sermon [Epitaphs] One person I have to make good: myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy--if I may. - Christmas Sermon [Goodness] To be honest, to be kind--to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation--above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends with himself--here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy. - Christmas Sermon [Life] A man finds he has been wrong at every preceding stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right. - Crabbed Age [Wrong] Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong. - Crabbed Age [Youth] For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself. - Crabbed Age [Youth] When an old gentlemen waggles his head and says: "Ah, so I thought when I was your age," it is not thought an answer at all, if the young man retorts: "My venerable sir, so I shall most probably think when I am yours." And yet the one is as good as the other. - Crabbed Age and Youth [Age] Displaying page 2 of 4 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4
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