If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!
In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?"
Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.
While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.
Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.
All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion ; and it is on the quality of this public opinion that their prosperity depends. It is, therefore, their first duty to purify the element from which they draw the breath of life.
Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best.
There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
O thou, whose days are yet all spring, Faith, blighted once, is past retrieving; Experience is a dumb, dead thing; The victory's in believing.
No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.
Some kind of pace may be got out of the eeriest jade by the near prospect of oats; but the thoroughbred has the spur in his blood.
It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.
Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan Repeating us by rote: For him her Old World moulds aside she threw And, choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new.
Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.
God's livery is a very plain one; but its wearers have good reason to be content. If it have not so much gold-lace about it as Satan's, it keeps out foul weather better, and is besides a great deal cheaper.
At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.
AND what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays; Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten.
To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.
A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.
Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.
Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
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