There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them.


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If this be treason, make the most of it!
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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
PATRICK HENRY
No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in whi...
HENRY MILLER
So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring...
HENRY VAUGHAN
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
HENRY ROLLINS
I wonder what it's like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pa...
HENRY ROLLINS
By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
O. HENRY
The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he trave...
O. HENRY
I never have time to read now. I did all my reading before I was twenty.
O. HENRY
It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
O. HENRY
It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.
O. HENRY
Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn...
O. HENRY
East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of peopl...
O. HENRY
When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.
O. HENRY
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
O. HENRY
By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.
O. HENRY
It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.
O. HENRY
If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
O. HENRY
I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my lif...
O. HENRY
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim owner...
O. HENRY
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
O. HENRY
I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singin...
HENRY ROLLINS
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
HENRY FORD