“What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the everlasting battle of the powers of light with those of darkness; with heroism reduced to its bare chance, yet ever and anon snatching victory from the jaws of death.”
William
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“So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.”
“Friends, books, cheerful heart, and conscience clear are the most choice companions we have here.”
“But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet, Tread softly because you tread on n dreams.”
“The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.”
“I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul’s good to do each day two things they disliked. . . . It is a precept I have followed scrupulously: for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.”
“To insure good health: Eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.”
“Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.”
“Tolerance is another word for indifference.”
“It's a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”