All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.
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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
I don’t think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It’s perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.
What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.
If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
I’ve been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media.
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