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“The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity but in being uninteresting.”
“When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors Landor replies "Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life."”
“Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.”
“There is always a best way of doing everything if it be only to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.”
“The soul contains the event that shall befall it for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.”
“There are people who have an appetite for grief pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread natures so doomed that no prosp...”
“A man is a method a progressive arrangement a selecting principle gathering his like unto him wherever he goes. What you are comes to you.”
“Though I am weak yet God when prayed Cannot withhold his conquering aid.”
“Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit and not give the bread of life.”
“The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that if you let it alone it will let you alone.”
“Every reform was once a private opinion and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem of the age.”
“Ah if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches!”
“The high prize of life the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.”
“As soon as there is life there is danger.”
“Outside among your fellows among strangers you must preserve appearances a hundred things you cannot do but inside the terrible freedom!”
“Sanity is very rare every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.”
“Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago but it is put to better use.”
“Accept the place the divine providence has found for you.”
“It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much but I am my own comedy and tragedy.”
“Discontent is want of self-discipline it is infirmity of will.”
