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.
A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things.
Silence is more eloquent than words.
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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.
Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
Speech is silver, silence is golden.
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else.
Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand."
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