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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams, 1923



For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. ~Martin Luther



More grievous than tears is the sight of them. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. ~Abraham Lincoln



The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy. ~Louis Kronenberger



I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing. ~Katherine Anne Porter



He leaves in the background of fame all other navigators whose names are written in the priceless annals of discovery. ~Emilio Castelar He liked companionship, but he wouldn't be petted, or fussed over, or sit in anyone's lap a moment; he always extricated himself from such familiarity with dignity and with no show of temper. If there was any petting to be done, however, he chose to do it. Often he would sit looking at me, and then, moved by a delicate affection, come and pull at my coat and sleeve until he could touch my face with his nose, and then go away contented. ~Charles Dudley Warner



Any conditioned cat-hater can be won over by any cat who chooses to make the effort. ~Paul Corey



Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you. ~Andre Gide



There are no strangers on Christmas Eve. ~Mildred Cram and Adele Comandini



Leave sooner, drive slower, live longer. ~Author Unknown



Many people pray as if God were a big aspirin pill; they come only when they hurt. ~B. Graham Dienert



Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. ~George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists



Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo



The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. ~Dora Winifred Black Russell



Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~William Wordsworth



Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all of the time, made new. ~Ursula K. LeGuin



The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. ~David Friedman



Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~Henry David Thoreau