A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.
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A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
‘Twas drink made me fall in love, And love made me run into debt, And though I have struggled and struggled and strove, I cannot get out of them yet.
It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.
‘Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.
It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.
America’s strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal.
We stay as a team. I might be England captain, but that doesn’t mean I get treated differently.
I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.
I don’t look like someone who leans on a mantelpiece with a cocktail in my hand, you know.
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.
You’re playing worse and worse every day and right now you’re playing like it’s next month.
There’s a way in which these guys all think absolutely media, day and night. Access is what it’s all about, so they spin 24 hours a day and that’s a problem.
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