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" As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. "

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" Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings. "

" Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. "

Doing The Right Thing

" Habit is the nursery of errors. "

" It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her. "

" Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. "

" To love is to act. "

" Those who live are those who fight. "

" A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it. "

" A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. "

" Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions. "

" A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers. "

" Puns are the droppings of soaring wits. "

" Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. "

" The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness. "

" The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant. "

" When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. "

" One believes others will do what he will do to himself. "

" A library implies an act of faith. "

" It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like. "

" Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman. "

" How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. "

" It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life. "

" The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised. "

" Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. "

" What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love! "

" But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed. "

" Perseverance, secret of all triumphs. "