If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

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We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep...

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep...

A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in...

A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in...

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute,...

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute,...

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep...

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep...

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as...

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as...

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing...

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing...

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not...

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not...

The saddest thing that befalls a soul Is when it loses faith in God and...

The saddest thing that befalls a soul Is when it loses faith in God and...

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

Everything is sweetened by risk.