So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.
- Edward Dahlberg
Perfect, Virtues, No Time, Vices
The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.
- Edward Dahlberg
Liberty, Better, Regulation, Understood
Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.
- Edward Dahlberg
Virtue, Nothing, Times, Unattractive
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.
- Edward Dahlberg
Love, Young, Which, Inertia
Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.
- Edward Dahlberg
Truth, Genius, Neglected, Shabby
To write is a humiliation.
- Edward Dahlberg
Write, Humiliation
Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.
- Edward Dahlberg
Die, Lives, Wits, Lunacy
A strong foe is better than a weak friend.
- Edward Dahlberg
Strong, Better, Than, Foe
Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.
- Edward Dahlberg
Mistake, Always, Side, Disney
Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.
- Edward Dahlberg
Great, Been, Civilized, Separated
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
- Edward Dahlberg
Writing, Farming, Conscience, Ancestors
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
- Edward Dahlberg
Soul, Fruit, Likely, Peril
The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.
- Edward Dahlberg
Nature, Bad, Poet, Mimicking
We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.
- Edward Dahlberg
Difficult, Motives, About, Sins
When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.
- Edward Dahlberg
Worthless, Either, His, Travels
The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.
- Edward Dahlberg
Spirit, Always, Been, Sex
Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.
- Edward Dahlberg
Give, Nothing, Away, Himself
We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
- Edward Dahlberg
Die, Precious, Shared, Suffer
Every decision you make is a mistake.
- Edward Dahlberg
Decision, Every, Make, Mistake
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