The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.
Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.
The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.
All true work is sacred.
The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.
Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!
If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?
This we take it is the grand characteristic of our age. By our skill in Mechanism, it has come to pass, that in the management ofexternal things we excel all other ages; while in whatever respects the pure moral nature, in true dignity of soul and character, we are perhaps inferior to most civilised ages.
Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History Books!
Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: "A judicious man," says he, "looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him."
By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!
The purpose of man is in action not thought.
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
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