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1625 Essayist Quotes

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.

Question Settle Time Influence
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The test of friendship is its fidelity when every charm of fortune and environment has been spent away, and the bare, undraped character alone remains; if love still holds steadfast, and the joy of companionship survives in such an hour, the fellowship becomes a beautiful prophecy of immortality.

Test Friendship Fidelity Fortune
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There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a man's character more fully than the spirit in which he bears his limitations.

Kind Life Sweetness Strength
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Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for the purpose of progress.

Real freedom Mastery Knowledge Historic conditions
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The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.

Germs Truth Ripe moment Answers
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Then the maiden climbed into a tree, and, seating herself in the branches, began to knit.

The maiden Climbed Branches
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Of the race, untrammelled by the necessity of rigid adherence to the fact. The myths record the earliest attempt at an explanation of the world and its life; the fairy tale records the free and joyful

Race Untrammeled Rigid adherence Fact
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Now at the end of a long avenue, but when he turned to, look for his followers not one was to be seen; the woods had closed instantly upon him as he had passed through. He was entirely alone, and utter

End Long avenue Followers Seen
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On every side were stretched the bodies of men and animals apparently lifeless.

Every side Stretched Men Animals
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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

Blood Circulation Greatly Hygiene
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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Life People People Say Prefer
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There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Achieve After Aim Enjoy
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To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.

All Day Behave Could Day
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Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.

Both Discover God Out
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If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul.
Leisure Look Losing May
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How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

Being Eat Eaten Enough
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Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.

After Another Face Find
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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
Being Being Rich Live People
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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
Generation Only Readers Span
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The newest books are those that never grow old.
Books Grow Never Newest
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It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
Accept Advice Give Great
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It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.

Brains Cracks Creeps Ecstasy
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The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

Drudgery Involves Love Test
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Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.

Behave Charm Charming Edge
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People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.

Before Bright Faint Feel
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There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

Avail Few Good However
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What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

Courage Feel Missed More
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Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

Entirely Income Matter Temperament
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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

Author Cell Chained Every
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What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

Author Good He Like
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We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.

Acquaintances Boast Complain Kinds
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All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

Abyss All My Life Been Bottom
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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Enchanting Hear More People
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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
Art Fury Movement Must
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There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

Baldness Far Felicity Imagine
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The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.

Bewildered Know Old Sad
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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Happiness Insipid Rarest Seems
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Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.

Enjoy Go Gone Heaven
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If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

Always Liar Tell Thought
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Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.

Behavior Bottled Essence Labels
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A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.

Gilded Mediocre Talent Tomb
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Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

Conscience Good Live Most
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A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

Affections Amusement Flat Friendly
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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Away Bring Half Joy
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There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.

Beautiful Houses Like People
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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Acts Amusing Dying Find
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Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

Aspirations Drop People Tell
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Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Both Discover God Out
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There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Few Matters Minds One Thing
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Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!

Coming Danger Many Nightmares
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