Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes.
The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.
Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.
An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.
A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us.
Whenever you have the kind of market that is taking shape now - a wildly volatile one with big pricing discrepancies - it plays right into the hands of managers who are very focused on research and stock picking.
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it-have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.
Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
That pernicious sentiment, "Our country, right or wrong."
Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.
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.
If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.
All birds during the pairing season become more or less sentimental, and murmur soft nothings in a tone very unlike the grinding-organ repetition and loudness of their habitual song. The crow is very comical as a lover; and to hear him trying to soften his croak to the proper Saint-Preux standard has something the effect of a Mississippi boatman quoting Tennyson.
Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new-born that drops into its place And which, once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth can shake.
It is right precious to behold The first long surf of climbing light Flood all the thirsty east with 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.
At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
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?"
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