One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Every noble work is at first impossible.
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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