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| Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music. | | Uncategorized | |
| Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit. | | Uncategorized | |
| Next to God, we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth having | | God | |
| No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. | | Delusion | |
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| Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. | | Uncategorized | |
| Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity | | Uncategorized | |
| Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence. | | Uncategorized | |
| Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failure. In the assurance of strength there is strength, and, they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers. | | Uncategorized | |
| Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. | | Uncategorized | |
| Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. | | Uncategorized | |
| Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin. | | Uncategorized | |
| Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. | | Grief | |
| Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them. | | Uncategorized | |
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| The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul | | Uncategorized | |
| The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god. | | Uncategorized | |
| The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts | | Uncategorized | |
| The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better. | | Age | |
