What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?
Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not : whoso would behold her must climb with long and laborious effort, nay, still linger in the forecourt, till manifold trial have proved him worthy of admission into the interior solemnities.
The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.
A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill.
Love not Pleasure; love God.
Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.
The actual well seen is ideal.
They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.
Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
Fancy that thou deservest to be hangedthou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot: fancy that thou deservest to be hanged ina hair halter, it will be a luxury to die in hemp.
A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them.
'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.
Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.
Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.
He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.
Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest.
We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.
Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.
History is a great dust heap.
The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wildstrong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.
Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
Literature is the thought of thinking souls.
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