What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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