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"The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new."
"life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom."
"Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success."
"Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have."
"To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see."
"You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket."
"When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him."
"Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart."
"The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being."
"Return those shoes to the shoemaker Return this hand to my father This pillow to the pillowmaker Those slippers to the shop. That wainscot to the carpenter, But my mind my tranquil and eternal Mind Return it to whom?"
"All God requires from us is to enjoy life and love. That's the whole point."
"Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day."
"If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence."
"People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure."
"It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare: But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air!"
"A few years ago I lost one of my dearest friends. He died at age 53 - heart attack. David is gone, but he was one of my very special friends. I used to say of David that if I was stuck in a foreign jail somewhere accused unduly and if they would allow me one phone call, I would call David. Why? He would come and get me. That's a friend. Somebody who would come and get you."
"There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music."
"God bears with the wicked, but not forever."
"There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else."