Gods always love the people who make em.
Gods always love the people who make em.
If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!
If you haven't got it,you can't show it. If you have got it,you can't hide it.
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.
There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food.
Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
It costs you something to do good!
There is something about poverty that smells like death.
People can be slave-ships in shoes.
No man may make another free.
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
I regret all of my books.
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
I have a strong suspicion . . . that much that passes for constant love is a golded-up moment walking in its sleep.
It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
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