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[the GOAT]

Constant you are, But yet a woman; and for secrecy, No lady closer; for I well believe Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know.

 

[the GOAT]

There's no trick in being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

 

[the GOAT]

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

 

[the GOAT]

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

 

[the GOAT]

For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.

 

[the GOAT]

The Senate is the only show in the world where the cash customers have to sit in the balcony.

 

[the GOAT]

Perfect knowledge comes only when you see the world in yourself, just as he who awakes from the dream then knows he saw his dream-world with its suns and stars in himself.

 

[the GOAT]

Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,?aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

 

[the GOAT]

Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light, delicate sky-blue sphere laced with slowly swirling veils of white, rising gradually like a small pearl in a thick sea of black mystery. It takes more than a moment to fully realize this is Earth ... home.

 

[the GOAT]

Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

 

[the GOAT]

PASSPORT, n. A document treacherously inflicted upon a citizen going abroad, exposing him as an alien and pointing him out for special reprobation and outrage.

 

[the GOAT]

Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.

 

[the GOAT]

The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like the honor of a soldier, dearer to him than life.

 

[the GOAT]

CONSERVATIVE, n. A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from a Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

 

[the GOAT]

Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore called the staff of life.

 

[the GOAT]

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.

 

[the GOAT]

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

 

[the GOAT]

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

 

[the GOAT]

This living, this living, this living Was never a project of mine.

 

[the GOAT]

No one needs an automatic weapon except cowards and criminals and weirdoes who have to own one to feel like a man.