Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

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Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

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He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

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The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

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What you do when you don't have to, determines what you will be when you can no longer help it.

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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

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Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

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If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.

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To the City of Bombay

Mother of Cities to me,
For I was born in her gate,
Between the palms and the sea,
Where the world-end steamers wait.

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