Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Every time you wink the stars move.
The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and merely defensive of property. It vindicates no right, it aspires to no real good, it brands no crime, it proposes no generous policy, it does not build, nor write, nor cherish the arts, nor foster religion, nor establish schools, nor encourage science, nor emancipate the slave, nor befriend the poor, or the Indian, or the immigrant.
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men - that is genius... Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist... What I must do, is all that concerns me; not what the people think... Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.
If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.
Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.
We must be our own before we can be another's.
What you are comes to you.
Enthusiasm is the engine of success.
Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose.
The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.
It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.
Whatever limits us we call fate.
Thought is the seed of action.
The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.
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