MemHT Portal My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.
]]> I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
]]> Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety. It shows itself in acts rather than in words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations.
]]> One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
]]> Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.
]]> To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it?who can say this is not greatness?
]]> I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
]]> The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.
]]> Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.
]]> Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
]]> The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as the modern painter learns to draw, and then learns when utterly to disregard his accomplishment, when to subordinate it to a higher and truer effect.
]]> The best of men cannot suspend their fate:
The good die early, and the bad die late.
]]> You perceive the force of a word. He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense...Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
]]> Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
]]> Now, here you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!
]]> In a just cause it is right to be confident.
]]> What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
]]> He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death.
]]> If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
]]> Rebukes are easy from our betters,
From men of quality and letters;
But when low dunces will affront,
What man alive can stand the brunt?
]]> If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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