Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.
Those who trust us educate us.
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
In high vengeance there is noble scorn.
Don't judge a book by its cover
Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.
What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.
There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling.
there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don't understand; and the other is, to tell them what they're used to.
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