Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection
Learn what you are and be such.
O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.
Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as a gift of heaven a gleam of sunshine, there rest upon men a radiant light and, aye, a gentle life.
Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.
Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.
Words have a longer life than deeds.
The test of any man lies in action.
Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.
There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.
Time is the best preserver of righteous men.
It is God that accomplishes all term to hopes, God, who overtakes the flying eagle, outpasses the dolphin in the sea; who bends under his strength the man with thoughts too high.
We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.
The present will not long endure.
A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
Mankind is a dream of a shadow.
Of the good things given between man and man, I say that a neighbor, true and loving in heart, to neighbor is a joy beyond all things else.
Unsung, the noblest deed will die.
He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.
War is sweet for those who haven't experienced it.
Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.
The race of gods and men is one, and from one mother we both draw our breath. Yet all the difference in our power holds us apart, so that man is nothing, but the brazen floor of heaven is eternally unshakable.
Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.
Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
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