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Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

It matters not what goal you seek Its secret here reposes You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses.

I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me, I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way.

The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.

Prudence which degenerates into timidity is very seldom the path to safety.

Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it.

Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity

All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

I have great faith in fools -- self confidence my friends call it.

Take this kiss upon the brow And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow--You are not wrong who deemThat my days have been a dreamYet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day,In a vision, or in none,Is it therefore the less goneAll that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.

Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.

There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Some things are so completely ludicrous that a man must laugh or die. To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!

It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.

The ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back.

Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back.

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.

Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.

I express many absurd opinions, but I am not the first man to do it American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is any thing you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have.

One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool.

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.