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I have wandered in a face, for hours . . .
Source: In The Concise Columbia...
When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his...
I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding...
By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in...
I know a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty than they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is...
Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil
O'er books consumed the midnight oil?
Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
When we risk no contradiction,
It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction.
Source:...
Tis a gross error, held in schools,
That Fortune always favours fools.
Source:...
I hate the man who builds his name on the ruins of another's fame.
Source: In The...
I long for scenes where man has never trod;
. . . There to abide with my Creator, God.
Untroubling and untroubled where I lie;
The grass below - above the vaulted sky.
The present is the funeral of the past,
And man the living sepulchre of life.
If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.
Source: Letter to a...
Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to...
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
Source: In The Manager's Book of...
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
Source: In Dictionary of...
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
Source: In Shorter Bartlett's...
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
Source: In The International Thesaurus...