Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.
People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.
Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity -namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.
Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
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