Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection
O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.
Learn what you are and be such.
Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.
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.
Words have a longer life than deeds.
Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.
Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.
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.
The test of any man lies in action.
A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
Mankind is a dream of a shadow.
Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.
We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.
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.
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.
The present will not long endure.
Time is the best preserver of righteous men.
He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.
I will be small in small things, great among great.
Envy bestrides praise.
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.
Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.
Unsung, the noblest deed will die.
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