A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing. |
We live as we dream - alone. |
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. |
All a man can betray is his conscience. |
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. |
I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. |
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. |
He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision - he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath: "The horror! The horror!" |
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