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1625 Essayist Quotes

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

Anything Big Just Man
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

Any Did Forties Friends
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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

Hero Me Show Tragedy
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You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

Because Say Something Want
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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

Cut Exclamation Joke Laughing
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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

Cards Carefully Girl Great
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

Both Find Hands Lucky
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Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

Chemical Dream Everybody Form
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I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

About Been Drunk Library
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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

American American Women Bewildered Faces
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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.
Charm Combined Distinction Fascinated
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Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

Begin Country End Few
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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

After Except Life Love
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.

Career Decent Ever Founded
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To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

About Being Danger Depressing
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When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

Bluff Charming Depths Heads
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It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.

Before Met People Rude
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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

Consciousness Few First Great
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I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

Against Hope Hopes Last
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
Art Contempt Great Great Art
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It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

Between Difference Intelligence Me
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Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

Arthritis Connection Different Discouragement
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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Cheat Come Conditions Deeper
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My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

Afterwards Always Critics Ever
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A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
Everything Fountain Gladness Heart
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A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

Back Become Brothers Brothers And Sisters
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A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

Affections History Life Life Is A
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Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

Acting Always Being Fulfilled
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The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.
Ability Blaming Down Easiest
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
Age Feeling Matter Years
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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Doing Greatest Growing Learning
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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

Above Great Great Minds Little
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They who drink beer will think beer.

Beer Drink Think Who
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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Almost Create Disadvantage Every
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It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

Between Come Empty End
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There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Adversity Broad Dark Daylight
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The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

Hero His Idol Our
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Age Constant Grows Never
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

Affliction Brood Cherish Consider
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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

About Communion Contact Dignity
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Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Attend Because Business Courts
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Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.

Always Among Away Clouds
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Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

Abroad Apt Discipline Home
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There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
Jealousy Never Regard Strong
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Back Flow Heart Lost
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Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.

Community Continually Ears Ever
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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
Great Great Minds Minds Others
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The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

Dead Effect Elevate Mind
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There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.

Delights Fills Majesty Noble
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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

Contrition Deep Eloquently Grief
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