The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind.
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Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life.
Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life.
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo read more
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on read more
Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he read more
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, read more
The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.
Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.
Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.
