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| A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility. | | Uncategorized | |
| A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space. | | Uncategorized | |
| A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope. | | Uncategorized | |
| A terrible, beetle-browed, mastiff-mouthed, yellow-skinned, broad-bottomed, grim-taciturn individual; with a pair of dull-cruel-looking black eyes, and as much Parliamentary intellect and silent-rage in him. . . as I have ever seen in any man. | | Uncategorized | |
| A well-written Life is almost as rare as a well-spent one | | Uncategorized | |
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| A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures. | | Uncategorized | |
| Action hangs, as it were, ''dissolved'' in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him. | | Uncategorized | |
| Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. | | Adversity | |
| Alas, the fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself | | Belief | |
| All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone. | | Uncategorized | |
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| All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you. | | Uncategorized | |
| All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing. | | Uncategorized | |
| All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. | | Mankind | |
| All work, even cotton spinning, is noble; work alone is noble | | Uncategorized | |
| As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true. | | Belief | |
| As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden, - "Speech is silver, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity | | Silence; Speech | |
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