The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
quotation: The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) Discuss
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A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) Discuss
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A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving (1783-1859) Discuss
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Discuss
Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored…
Herman Melville (1819-1891) Discuss
Academy: A modern school where football is taught.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) Discuss
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Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution–such call I good books.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Discuss
Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) Discuss
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I am as desirous of being a good neighbor as I am of being a bad subject.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Discuss
Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) Discuss
The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
It has been observed that one’s nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others, from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) Discuss
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I heartily accept the motto, “That government is best which governs least”; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Discuss
A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer, but if it is a good word and has no exact modern equivalent equally good, it is good enough for the good writer.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) Discuss
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Discuss
A common and natural result of an undue respect for the law is, that you may see a file of soldiers … marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Discuss
Man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Discuss
| Definition: | (adjective) Incapable of being overcome, challenged, or refuted. |
| Synonyms: | impregnable |
| Usage: | I felt the inexpugnable strength of common sense being insidiously menaced by this gruesome, by this insane, delusion. Discuss. |
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Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity … ? Surely all this is not without meaning … But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.
Herman Melville (1819-1891) Discuss
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one’s country, not to its institutions or its office-holders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) Discuss
I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Discuss
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We love flattery even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Discuss
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Discuss
Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
Herman Melville (1819-1891) Discuss
Revolutions are usually accompanied by a considerable effusion of blood, but are accounted worth it—this appraisement being made by beneficiaries whose blood had not the mischance to be shed.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) Discuss
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it—namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) Discuss
All say, “How hard it is that we have to die”—a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Discuss
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Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Discuss
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Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) Discuss
Insensible as he is to a thousand wants, and removed from harassing cares, may not the savage be the happier man of the two?
Herman Melville (1819-1891) Discuss
Traveling is a fool’s paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Discuss
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96, B. 179 “American” (1893)
00:00 – Allegro ma non troppo
09:08 – Lento
16:14 – Molto vivace
20:00 – Finale. Vivace ma non troppo
Performed by the Cleveland Quartet (Telarc, 1991).
“From its first performance, Dvořák’s ‘American’ Quartet has enjoyed lasting popularity for its tunefulness, its rhythmic verve, and its happy interplay of the four instruments. Continue reading
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Late in the 1951 baseball season, the New York Giants trailed far behind their crosstown rivals, the Brooklyn Dodgers, in the standings. However, the Giants went on a winning streak, and the two teams finished the regular season with identical 96-58 records. In the first two games of a three-game playoff series, the teams traded wins. In the bottom of game three’s ninth inning, the Giants were trailing 4-2 with two men on base when Bobby Thomson came to bat. What happened next? More… Discuss
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