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"If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices."

"If any one were to ask me what in my opinion was the dullest and most stupid spot on the face of the Earth, I should decidedly say Chelmsford."

"La difficulté d'écrire l'anglais m'est extrêmement ennuyeuse. Ah, mon Dieu! si l'on pouvait toujours écrire cette belle langue de France!"

"Resisting the slow touch of a frozen finger tracing out my spine."

"She's the ornament of her sex."

"The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none."

"The difficulty of writing English is most tiresome to me. My God! If only we could write this beautiful language of France at all times!"

"By dying young, I shall escape great sufferings. I had not qualities or talents to make my way very well in the world: I should have been continually at fault."

"There was no possibility of taking a walk that day."

"Retrospection of his own life. From this phrase, alternative names for each decades of human life are derived in Chinese."

"The Master said, "He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it."

"The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing."

"The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large."

"To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous."

"A death-blow is a life-blow to some Who, till they died, did not alive become; Who, had they lived, had died, but when They died, vitality begun."

"Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind."

"If the room is smoky, if only moderately, I will stay; if there is too much smoke I will go. Remember this, keep a firm hold on it, the door is always open."

"It is difficulties that show what men are."

"It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?"

"Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle."

"The essence of the good is a certain kind of moral purpose, and that of the evil is a certain kind of moral purpose."

"To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable."

"Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other."

"If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally."

"May I unceasingly aspire to unclothe all around me of its conventional, human, temporary dress, to look at it in its essence and in its relation to eternity."

"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone."

"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?"

"Worldly faces, never look so worldly as at a funeral."

"A gun gives you the body, not the bird."

"An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day."

"And the cost of a thing it will be remembered as the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it."

"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves."

"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."

"It is a great art to saunter."

"It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?"

"That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess."

"O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!"

"The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!Sweet voice, sweet lips, soft hand, and softer breast."

"Also as Tao called Tao is not Tao."

"He who knows does not speak; he who speaks does not know."

"He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough."

"Qiān lǐ zhī xíng shǐ yú zú xià."

"The Tao is called the Great Mother: empty yet inexhaustible, it gives birth to infinite worlds."

"The Tao is like a bellows: it is empty yet infinitely capable. The more you use it, the more it produces; the more you talk of it, the less you understand."

"To attain knowledge, add things every day.To attain wisdom, remove things every day."

"Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave."

"The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor."

"There is only one enduring happiness in life—to live for others."

"As a day well spent makes sleep seem pleasant, so a life well employed makes death pleasant. A life well spent is long."

"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."

"Life well spent is long."

"All that is from the gods is full of Providence."

"As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion."

"Remember that all is opinion."

"The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing."

"This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs."

"This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole..."

"Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine."

"Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal."

"Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience — 4000 critics."

"It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world."

"The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless."

"Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event."

"Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing?"

"Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep, — that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake and live."

"Sweet the rose which lives in Heaven, Although on earth ’tis planted, Where its honours blow, While by earth’s slaves the leaves are riven Which die the while they glow."

"A speech of Aspasia, recounted by Socrates, as portrayed in the dialogue."

"I shall assume that your silence gives consent."

"Parmenides: Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike."

"Perception and knowledge could never be the same."

"Zeno: Most people are not aware that this roundabout progress through all things is the only way in which the mind can attain truth and wisdom."

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."

"To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven."

"He will find a way — or make one."

"Quaeris Alcidae parem? Nemo est nisi ipse."

"Who vaunts his race, lauds what belongs to others."

"I only wish that wisdom were the kind of thing that flowed ... from the vessel that was full to the one that was empty."

"Plato's account of the trial of Socrates."

"There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse."

"I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."