Fear is a great instructor.
Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.
All life is a nap. The more naps you take the better.
There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history; I mean "the foolish face of praise," the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease, in answer to conversation which does not interest us. The muscles, not spontaneously moved but moved, by a low usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face, with the most disagreeable sensation.
I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.
The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith
The multitude of the sick shall not make us deny the existence of health.
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.
There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.
When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.
It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other; and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in Paradise again.
As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.
Where dwells the religion? Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion, or thought or gesture. They do not dwell or stay atall. Electricity cannot be made fast, mortared up and ended, like London Monument, or the Tower, so that you shall know where to find it, and keep it fixed, as the English do with their things, forevermore; it is passing, glancing, gesticular; it is a traveller, a newness, a surprise, a secret which perplexes them, and puts them out.
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
Ne te quaesiveris extra." (Do not seek for things outside of yourself)
Valor consists in the power of self recovery.
Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe.
There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.
There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfillment of every contract, so that honest service cannot come to loss. If you serve an ungrateful master, serve him the more. Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is withholden, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.
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