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Culture is acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of...
Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
For the creation of a master-work of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the...
Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is...
One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common -- discontent.
Source: In...
I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it . . ....
The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul,...
There is material among us for the broadest comedies and the deepest tragedies, but, besides money and leisure, it...
Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit...
What matters it if they do forget the singer, so they don't forget the song.
Tell me what company thou keepest, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
Source: Don...
Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
Source: In...
Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.
Source: El Licenciado...
The proof of the pudding is in the eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole...
Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.
Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of...
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to...
Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection.
If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the...
Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy...