Mirth is a Proteus, changing its shape and manner with the thousand diversities of individual character, from the … - Edwin Percy Whipple

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We can't stop here, this is bat country!

Edwin Percy Whipple

Mirth is a Proteus, changing its shape and manner with the thousand diversities of individual character, from the most superfluous gayety to the deepest, moat earnest humor.

Changing, Character, Diversity, Individual, Moats, Thousand

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As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies cannot protect it then; and walls which have remained impenetrable to cannon have fallen before a roar of laughter or a hiss of contempt.

Army, Contemptible, Honor, Laughter, Roar, Wall

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

Discipline, Happiness, Motivational Sports, Rich, Satisfying

God is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.

Action, Alliance, Alliances, Cheer, Claim

A large portion of human beings live not so much in themselves as in what they desire to be. They create what is called an ideal character, in an ideal form, whose perfections compensate in some degree for the imperfections of their own.

Character, Degree, Desire, Human, Large, Perfection

A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being.

Earth, Fit, Living, Thought, Walks

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He seems so. . English sometimes, kind of distant or reserved, but then he'll look at me, and his eyes see right through to my soul.

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We can't stop here, this is bat country!

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Sherwood Anderson

In that high place in the darkness the two oddly sensitive human atoms held each other tightly and waited. In the mind of each was the same thought. "I have come to this lonely place and here is this other," was the substance of the thing felt.

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Rainer Maria Rilke

I am learning to see. I don't know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn't stop where it once used to. I have an interior that I never knew of. . . What's the use of telling someone that I am changing? If I'm changing, I am no longer who I was; and if I am something else, it's obvious that I have no acquaintances. And I can't possibly write to strangers.

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Niccolo Machiavelli

He who desires or attempts to reform the government of a state and wishes to have it accepted, must at least retain the semblance of the old forms; so that it may seem to the people that there has been no change in the institutions, even though in fact they are entirely different from the old ones. For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities.

Accepted, Forms, Government, People, Reality