Many a crown shines spotless now that yet was deeply sullied in the winning.
Cowards have done good and kind actions, but a coward never pardoned.
He, that noble prize possessing He that boasts a friend that's true, He whom woman's love is blessing, Let him join the chorus too!
If you want to study yourself, look into the hearts of other people. If you want to study other people, look into your own heart.
Physical beauty is the sign of an interior beauty, a spiritual and moral beauty which is the basis, the principle, and the unity of the beautiful.
The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.
As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.
The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.
The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.
We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?
The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.
Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.
That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same time our rivals, nay, frequently our models, in those very points of superiority from which we seek comfort when regretting the unnatural character of our manners. We see that remarkable people uniting at once fullness of form and fullness of substance, both philosophising and creating, both tender and energetic, uniting a youthful fancy to the virility of reason in a glorious humanity.
Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past.
Time consecrates; and what is gray with age becomes religion.
O the eye's light is a noble gift of Heaven! All beings live from light, each fair created thing; the very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light.
Man is made of the wholly common, and custom is his nurse; woe then to them who lay irreverent hands on his old house-furniture, the dear inheritance from his forefathers: For time consecrates, and what is gray with age becomes religion.
Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
Satisfied if they themselves can escape from the hard labour of thought, they willingly abandon to others the guardianship of their thoughts.
Have Hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow, - No night but hath its morn.
Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
To one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter.
The lemonade is weak, like your soul.
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