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Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
There are two things that people want more than sex and money- recognition and praise.
A hero is a man who does what he can.
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.
The only prayer which a well-meaning man can pray is, O ye gods, give me whatever is fitting unto me!
The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.
What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step toward something better.
The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future has not yet thinned out.
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.
The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.
Almost everything comes from almost nothing.
All professions are a conspiracy against the country.
To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established.
My life seems to have become suddenly hollow, and I do not know what is hanging over me. I cannot even put the shadow that has fallen on me into words. At least into written words. I would give a great deal for a friend's voice.
In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.
The thing that impresses me most about North America is the way parents obey their children.
Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword.


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