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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. - Author object (481)

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties. - Author object (481)

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. - Author object (481)

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. - Author object (481)

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not. - Author object (481)

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. - Author object (481)

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true. - Author object (481)

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider. - Author object (481)

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself. - Author object (481)

Wonder is the seed of knowledge - Author object (481)

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand--and melting like a snowflake... - Author object (481)

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. - Author object (481)

Love is like a flower-you've got to let it grow. - Author object (110)

To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. - Author object (582)

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. - Author object (582)

All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time. - Author object (582)

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel. - Author object (582)

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride. - Author object (582)

I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful. - Author object (582)

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get from it, but what they become by it - Author object (582)