Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends.

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

Too low they build who build below the skies.

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace?.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!

Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.

Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!

Indoctrination is not just demeaning to the human conscience, it is lethal for the flourishing psychology of the hungry, young mind.

Come on you target for faraway laughter. Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!

True contentment depends not upon what we have a tub was large enough for Diogenes but a world was too little for Alexander.

I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.

Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.

Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?

I like the wrestling and executing the throws. My dad was a wrestler and he showed me some of those techniques, too.

Give according to your income lest God make your income according to your giving.

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