Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on.
One day with life and heart Is more than time enough to find a world.
Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.
Beauty hath no true glass, except it be in the sweet privacy of loving eyes.
Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.
New conditions of life will stimulate thought and give new forms to its expression.
Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.
Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.
Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.
Tyranny is always weakness
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
Light is the symbol of truth.
Stern men with empires in their brains.
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes.
Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.
Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
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