#adventure
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“Put you in this pickle. Ch. 5.”
“The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works. Ch. 4.”
“By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece. Ch. 4.”
“Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows. Ch. 4.”
“Y así, del poco dormir y del mucho leer, se le secó el cerebro, de manera que vino a perder el juicio. Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind. Ch. 1 (tr. Samuel Putnam).”
“They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains.”
“I was so free with him as not to mince the matter.”
“...estás en tu casa, donde eres señor della, como el rey de sus alcabalas. You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.”
“Acontece tener un padre un hijo feo y sin gracia alguna, y el amor que le tiene le pone una venda en los ojos para que no vea sus faltas, antes las juzga por discreciones y lindezas y las cuenta a sus amigos por agudezas y donaires. A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.”
“Truth is ever incoherent, and when the big hearts strike together, the concussion is a little stunning. Letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 1851); published in Memories of Hawthorne (1897) by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, p. 158”
“The reason the mass of men fear God, and at bottom dislike Him, is because they rather distrust His heart, and fancy Him all brain like a watch. (You perceive I employ a capital initial in the pronoun referring to the Deity; don't you think there is a slight dash of flunkeyism in that usage?) Letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne (June 1, 1851).”
“Whence came you, Hawthorne? By what right do you drink from my flagon of life? And when I put it to my lips”
“In me divine magnanimities are spontaneous and instantaneous”
“Not one man in five cycles, who is wise, will expect appreciative recognition from his fellows, or any one of them. Appreciation! Recognition! Is love appreciated? Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory”
“There is a certain tragic phase of humanity which, in our opinion, was never more powerfully embodied than by Hawthorne . We mean the tragedies of human thought in its own unbiassed, native, and profounder workings. We think that into no recorded mind has the intense feeling of the usable truth ever entered more deeply than into this man's. By usable truth, we mean the apprehension of the absolute condition of present things as they strike the eye of the man who fears them not, though they do their worst to him,”
“It will be a strange sort of book , tho', I fear; blubber is blubber you know; tho' you may get oil out of it, the poetry runs as hard as sap from a frozen maple tree;”
“And do not think, my boy, that because I, impulsively broke forth in jubillations over Shakspeare , that, therefore, I am of the number of the snobs who burn their tuns of rancid fat at his shrine. No, I would stand afar off & alone, & burn some pure Palm oil, the product of some overtopping trunk.”
“I do not oscillate in Emerson 's rainbow , but prefer rather to hang myself in mine own halter than swing in any other man's swing. Yet I think Emerson is more than a brilliant fellow. Be his stuff begged, borrowed, or stolen, or of his own domestic manufacture he is an uncommon man. Swear he is a humbug”
“Dolt & ass that I am I have lived more than 29 years, & until a few days ago, never made close acquaintance with the divine William . Ah, he's full of sermons”
“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut”
“For sale: baby shoes, never worn. Attributed six-word story”
“But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose. The Sun Also Rises (1926)”
“In every action, consider the end”
“A man can be destroyed but not defeated. The Old Man and the Sea (1952)”
“All good books have one thing in common: they are truer than if they had really happened”
“Write drunk, edit sober”
“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them”
“There is no friend as loyal as a book”
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. A Farewell to Arms (1929), Ch. 34”
“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea”
“The one thing that matters is to strive to attain something”
“Men have forgotten this truth. But you must not forget it. The Little Prince (1943), Ch. 21”
“The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. Wind, Sand and Stars (1939)”
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. Wind, Sand and Stars (1939)”
“Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Wind, Sand and Stars (1939)”
“A goal without a plan is just a wish”
“The time that you have wasted for your rose is what makes your rose so important. The Little Prince (1943), Ch. 21”
“You become responsible forever for what you have tamed. The Little Prince (1943), Ch. 21”
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. The Little Prince (1943), Ch. 21”
“Learn ever to separate the king and the principle of royalty. The king is but man ; royalty is the spirit of God . When you are in doubt as to which you should serve, forsake the material appearance for the invisible principle, for this is everything.”
“You are young, and your bitter recollections have time to change themselves into sweet remembrances." Ch. 67: Conclusion.”
“weep, heart full of love , youth, and life ! Alas, would I could weep like you!”
“Eh, gentlemen, let us reckon upon accidents ! Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile . Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down at the table and let us drink. Nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin.”
“Ch. 9: D'Artagnan Shows Himself.”
“Tous pour un, un pour tous, c'est notre devise All for one, one for all , that is our motto.”
“* My father was a mulatto , my grandfather was a Negro, and my great”
“Sleeping on a plank has one advantage”
“Ange Pitou , Vol. 1 chapter 7 (1854).”
“Rien ne réussit comme le succès. Nothing succeeds like success .”