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If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.
There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.
The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.
I am dead to adverbs; they cannot excite me. To misplace an adverb is a thing which I am able to do with frozen indifference; it can never give me a pang. There are subtleties which I cannot master at all - they confuse me, they mean absolutely nothing to me - and this adverb plague is one of them.
A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.
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I am aware that I am very old now; but I am also aware that I have never been so young as I am now, in spirit, since I was fourteen and entertained Jim Wolf with the wasps. I am only able to perceive that I am old by a mental process; I am altogether unable to feel old in spirit. It is a pity, too, for my lapses from gravity must surely often be a reproach to me. When I am in the company of very young people I always feel that I am one of them, and they probably privately resent it.
