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Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.
Topic: Wealth
Source: None
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Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar.
Topic: Wealth
Source: None
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Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
Topic: Whisper
Source: None
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The education of the will is the object of our existence.
Topic: Will
Source: None
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Bring me wine, but wine which never grew
In the belly of the grape,
Or grew on vine whose tap-roots, reaching through
Under the Andes to the Cape,
Suffered no savor of the earth to escape.
Topic: Wine and Spirits
Source: Bacchus (st. 1)
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Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,
Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields,
Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air
Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven,
And veils the farmhouse at the garden's end.
The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet
Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit
Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed
In a tumultuous privacy of storm.
Topic: Winter
Source: The Snow-Storm
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Come, see the north-wind's masonry,
Out of an unseen quarry evermore
Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer
Curves his white bastions with projected roof
Round every windward stake, or tree, or door.
Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work
So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he
For number or proportion.
Topic: Winter
Source: The Snow-Storm
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Topic: Wit
Source: None
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Topic: Wonder
Source: None
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Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science.
Topic: Wonder
Source: None
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Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science.
Topic: Wonders
Source: Works and Days
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Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.
Topic: Work
Source: Quatrains--Nature
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My work is a game, a very serious game.
Topic: Work
Source: Quatrains--Nature
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I look on that man as happy, who, when there is a question of success, looks into his work for a reply.
Topic: Work
Source: None
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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
Topic: World
Source: None
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The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.
Topic: World
Source: None
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Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
Topic: Worry
Source: None
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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
Topic: Worry
Source: None
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And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of
worship.
Topic: Worship
Source: in an address
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Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit . . .
Topic: Worth
Source: None
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We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.
Topic: Wrath
Source: None
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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.
Topic: Writer
Source: None
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The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.
Topic: Wrong
Source: None
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We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
Topic: Years
Source: None
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The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
Topic: Yield
Source: None
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Olympian bards who sung
Divine ideas below,
Which always find us young
And always keep us so.
Topic: Youth
Source: Essays--The Poet
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