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Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.
Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources (1899)
Mark this well, you proud men of action: You are nothing but the unwitting agents of the men of thought who often, in quiet self-effacement, mark out most exactly all your doings in advance.
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
The Modern Handbook of Humor (1967)
Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.
The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love.
Every woman is the gift of a world to me.
Ideas: The Book Le Grand (1826)
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course,
the best thing would to have never been born at all.
The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.
The Pillars of Economic Understanding : Factors and Markets (2000)
Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.
One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged.
There are more fools in the world than there are people.
At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did bear it. The question remains: how?
I owe my conversion simply to the reading of a book.
It is an ancient story
Yet is it ever new.
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.
The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.
The Cynic's Lexicon : A Dictionary of Amoral Advice (1984)
Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.
The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations (1987)
Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of St. John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison.
What! Think you that my flashes show me
Only in lightnings to excel?
Believe me, friends, you do not know me,
For I can thunder quite as well.