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He who purposes to be an author, should first be a student.
Source: In The...
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...
Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, But Genius must be born; and never can be...
Errors, like Straws, upon the surface flow;
He who would search for Pearls must dive...
Beware the fury of a patient man.
Source: Absalom and Achitophel, pt. 1.
-- John...
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our...
And indeed there will be time
To wonder, Do I dare? and, Do I dare?
Time to turn back and descend the...
In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value -- a...
The one thing you can do is to do nothing. Wait . . . You will find that you survive humiliation and hat's an...
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange,...
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...
You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to...
Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave...
A root is a flower that disdains fame.
Source: In Webster's NewWorld Best Book of...
God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to...
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say...
A man's errors are what make him amiable.
Source: In Isaac Asimov's Book of Science...
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he...