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Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks; And when she winds them round a young man's neck, She will not ever set him free again.

Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.

Blood is a juice of rarest quality. [Ger., Blut ist ein ganz beondrer Saft.]

Blood is a very special juice.

Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.

But one must know where one stands, and where the others wish to go.

But when all is said, the greatest art is to limit and isolate oneself.

But who will dare to speak the truth out clear? The few who anything of truth have learned, And foolishly did not keep truth concealed, Their thoughts and visions to the common herd revealed, Since time began we've crucified and burned

By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.

By seeking and blundering we learn.

By the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far as to say that theartist creates the object in that very moment by emphasizing its significant, characteristic, and interesting aspects or, rather, by adding the higher values.

Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?

Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky. [Ger., Es ist dafur gesorgt, dass die Baume nicht in den Himmel wachsen.]

Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.

Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist.

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

Change amuses the mind, but rarely profits.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.

Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World

Chess is the touchstone of intellect.

Children can scarcely be fashioned to meet with our likes and our purpose. Just as God did us give them, so must we hold them and love them, nurture and teach them to fullness and leave them to be what they are.

Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest. They also know well enough how this or that friend stands with their parents; and as they practice no dissimulation whatever, they serve as excellent barometers by which to observe the degree of favor or disfavor at which we stand with their parents.

Children, love one another, and if that is not possible-at least try to put up with one another.

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Collectors are happy people.

Colour itself is a degree of darkness.

Come my little one, and give me your hand.

Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love

Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action

Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and the steadfastness of your spirits. When you then take a deep breath and rise above the cares of this world and in an hour of leisure, you will surely win the proper frame of mind to face devoutly what is above us, with reverence, seeing in all events the manifestation of a higher guidance.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

Create, artist, do not talk.

Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.

Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.

Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life.

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.

Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.

Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.