1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)
Context: Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
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“A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.”
- Chinese proverb”
“Don't trust anybody who'd rather be grammatically correct than have a good time.”
Source: Skinny Legs and All
“Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.”
Fairy Tales (1835)
Source: The Story of a Mother
“Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.”
“A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.”
“We all make mistakes, some bigger than others, but none of us is perfect.”
Source: One Hundred Names
“I’m still afraid of being totally honest. I’m more afraid of this than dying.”
Source: Real World
“Better to have a big goal and reach half of it than to have no goal and reach all of it.”
“I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.”
“Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.”
Source: Kavanagh: A Tale (1849), Chapter 30.
Source: The History of Pendennis (1848-1850), Ch. 6.
Context: It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. Some of us can't: and are proud of our impotence, too.
“Hurt is a weapon. Better weapon than most because it doesn't look like one.”
Source: Stay
“New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.”
Source: Tender is the Night
“Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.”
“How unhappy does one have to be before living seems worse than dying?”
Source: Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division