Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow...

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow...

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if...

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if...

Habit is the deepest law of human nature

Habit is the deepest law of human nature

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less...

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less...

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its...

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its...

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of...

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of...

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no...

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no...

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it...

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it...

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament...

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament...

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A...

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A...

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to...

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to...

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or...

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or...