To return to the Epigram Guide Webpage.Anyone can write poetry, but it takes a genius to circulate it.
Let us pity the folks who are not here.
Quit blaming other people for your troubles - if you were big enough you wouldn't have any.
The first man who ate an oyster should have had a Carnegie medal.
If you want others to think well of you, set them an example by thinking well of yourself.
Wrath is always full of reasons - but seldom good ones.
All Art turns on Selection; and Selection is a matter of Observation.
Sympathy is the first attribute of love as well as the last.
You know what Carlyle said of Emerson's visit - "It was like a window flung open to azure."
I am not sure but that sympathy is love's own self, vitalized by some divine actinic ray.
Hell is not a condition of mind - it is a condition of your bank-balance.
Education is a conquest, not a bequest - it cannot be given, it must be achieved.
You can't surround yourself with too much simplicity.
Quit blaming other people for your troubles - if you were big enough you wouldn't have any.
The value of education lies not in its possession, but in the struggle to secure it.
If you want others to think well of you, set them an example by thinking well of yourself.
The trouble began when they commenced to tell each other the truth!
The original noise is what counts - most people are merely echoes!
Be sincere but don't be serious - at the last nothing matters much.
Action will remove the doubt which theory cannot solve.
Resurrection: The New Year's Day in the calendar of the dead.
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