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We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.Collection: Henry
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.Collection: Henry
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.Collection: Henry
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.Collection: Henry
Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.Collection: Henry
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.Collection: Henry
A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.Collection: Henry
Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.Collection: Henry
The savage in man is never quite eradicated.Collection: Henry
It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.Collection: Henry
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.Collection: Henry
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.Collection: Henry
Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.Collection: Henry
May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!Collection: Henry
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.Collection: Henry
There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.Collection: Henry
Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.Collection: Henry
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?Collection: Henry
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.Collection: Henry
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.Collection: Henry
Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.Collection: Henry
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.Collection: Henry
Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.Collection: Henry
I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.Collection: Henry
What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.Collection: Henry
Simplify, simplify.Collection: Henry
The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.Collection: Henry
There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.Collection: Henry
I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.Collection: Henry
I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.Collection: Henry
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.Collection: Henry
We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.Collection: Henry
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.Collection: Henry
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.Collection: Henry
Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.Collection: Henry
So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.Collection: Henry
I have no plans to slow down.Collection: Henry
I'm a tech geek.Collection: Henry
Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.Collection: Henry
Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs. For my own people, it was important to imagine him as the Great Emancipator, the Moses who led us out of slavery.Collection: Henry
Lincoln would love the fact that Obama is such a great conciliator, trying to transcend ideology.Collection: Henry
People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances.Collection: Henry
Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices and became what many would consider the first black man's president.Collection: Henry
So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.Collection: Henry
I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.Collection: Henry
When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied.Collection: Henry
All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A.D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that's before she married King Hussein of Jordan.Collection: Henry
I would like to do a series about sequencing the human genome, and also analyze more human diversity among other ethnic groups - a 'Faces of America 2.'Collection: Henry
It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed.Collection: Henry
We can't all work in the inner city. And, I don't even think that it is incumbent upon an African-American intellectual to be concerned in their work with problems of race and class. It's just one of the things, that we here at the DuBois Institute, are concerned about.Collection: Henry