People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
Walter Savage Landor
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
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Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess
men truth small consequences excess
A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice
honor conscience justice vanity
The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
life wisdom power wise face chambers
people direction lose begin effectiveness
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
anger bright love
A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
solitude god
Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood of those who press earnestly upon it.
quality life truth hurt bad blood broken press touch
What is reading but silent conversation.
reading introspection conversation silent books
I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
poetry worth life nature death art fire hands ready
No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
poetry
Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
politics men political-philosophy laws
When a cat flatters.. He is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
kindness cats sincerity flattery
Cats ask plainly for what they want.
cats
Cats, like men, are flatterers.
men cats flattery
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