“Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.”
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I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.
I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
