“But, Polly, a principle that can't bear being laughed at, frowned on, and cold-shouldered, isn't worthy of the name.”
Source: An Old-Fashioned Girl
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“Every man worthy of being called a son of man bears his cross and mounts his Golgotha.”
Author's Introduction, p. 15
Report to Greco (1965)
Context: Every man worthy of being called a son of man bears his cross and mounts his Golgotha. Many, indeed most, reach the first or second step, collapse pantingly in the middle of the journey, and do not attain the summit of Golgotha, in other words the summit of their duty: to be crucified, resurrected, and to save theirs souls. Afraid of crucifixion, they grow fainthearted; they do not know that the cross is the only path to resurrection. There is no other path.

A good Time going; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.”

“There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.”
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2 (2013), p. 136
“Successful salesman: someone who has found a cure for the common cold shoulder.”
Greg Heberlein (September 20, 1987) "Seattleite Eyes Northwest Stocks for Wall Street Institutions", The Seattle Times, p. D2.
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“His bow, a light burden for glad shoulders, the boy Hylas bears.”
Tela puer facilesque umeris gaudentibus arcus
gestat Hylas.
Source: Argonautica, Book I, Lines 109–110