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This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid for in full.
We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.
If you don't go to other men's funerals, they won't go to yours.
Babies are unreasonable; they expect far too much of existence. Each new generation that comes takes one look at the world and thinks wildly, "Is this all they've done to it?" and bursts into tears.
The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.
The worshipper of energy is too physically energetic to see that he cannot explore certain higher fields until he is still.
When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.
We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go on, it is labor.
You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for.
Knowledge is power. Unfortunate dupes of this saying will keep on creating, ambitiously, till they have stunned their native initiative and made their thoughts weak.
Every maiden's weak and willin' When she meets the proper villian.
Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first.
Tender are a mother's dreams, But her babe's not what he seems. See him plotting in his mind To grow up some other kind.
As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have indeed fallen far.
The creatures that want to live a life of their own, we call wild. If wild, then no matter how harmless, we treat them as outlaws, and those of us who are specially well brought up shoot them for fun.
Father expected a good deal of God. He didn't actually accuse God of inefficiency, but when he prayed his tone was loud and angry, like that of a dissatisfied guest in a carelessly managed hotel.
The egg it is the source of all. Tis everyone's ancestral hall. The bravest chief that ever fought, The lowest thief that e'er was caught, The harlot's lip, the maiden's leg, They each and all came from an egg.
