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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent—that is to triumph over old age.
Ponkapog Papers (1903)
What is lovely never dies,
But passes into other loveliness,
Star-dust, or sea-foam, or wingëd air.
Unguarded Gates and Other Poems (1895)
A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
Ponkapog Papers (1903)
There's a special Providence that watches over idiots, drunken men, and boys.
The Story of a Bad Boy (1870)
The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
Ponkapog Papers (1903)
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Utu, shepherd of the land, father of the black-headed, when you go to sleep, the people go to sleep with you; youth Utu, when you rise, the people rise with you.
Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me.
Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith; and in this sense atheism is a purification.