Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
It is a luxury to be understood.
Some people are born very far from home.
Knowledge is the only elegance.
No matter how often defeated, you are born to victory.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.
The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.
I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds.
Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.
Self-command is the main elegance.
Wherever work is done, victory is attained.
What we call results are beginnings.
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.
Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.
By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.
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