Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
~ H. L. Mencken
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it is also more nourishing.
~ H. L. Mencken
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It will never make any difference to a hero what the laws are. Their greatness will shine and accomplish itself unto the end, whether they second him or not.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces, in outlines, or rules of art can ever teach, namely, a radiation from the work of art of human character — a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and therefore most intelligible at last to those souls which have these attributes.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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