Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.
Not to the swift, the race: Not to the strong, the fight: Not to the righteous, perfect grace: Not to the wise, the light. But often faltering feet Come surest to the goal; And they who walk in darkness meet The sunrise of the soul.
The shadow by my finger cast Divides the future from the past: Before it, sleeps the unborn hour, In darkness, and beyond thy power. Behind its unreturning line, The vanished hour, no longer thine: One hour alone is in thy hands,- The NOW on which the shadow stands.
Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living - yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest.
For those who love... time is eternity.
If only the best birds sang, the forest would be silent.
Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.
Flowers rejoice when night is done, Lift their heads to greet the sun; Sweetest looks and odours raise, In a silent hymn of praise.
The Bible teaches that God owns the world. He distributes to every man according to His own good pleasure, conformably to general laws.
For real company and friendship, there is nothing outside the animal kingdom that is comparable to a river.
Death comes in its own time, in its own way.Death is as unique as the individual experiencing it.
What do I owe my father? Everything!
Four things a man must learn to do If he would make his record true; To think without confusion clearly; To love his fellowmen sincerely; To act from honest motives purely; To trust in God and Heav'n securely.
Let me but find it in my heart to say, When vagrant wishes beckon me astray, "This is my work; my blessing, not my doom; Of all who live, I am the one by whom This work can best be done in the right way."
Courage is the standing army of the soul which keeps it from conquest, pillage, and slavery.
You never see the stock called Happiness quoted on the exchange.
There is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and that is, keeping Christmas.
The birth of Jesus is the sunrise in the Bible.
The meditative angler is not exempt from sensational periods. There are times when all the uncertainty of his chosen pursuit seems to condense itself into one big chance, and stand out before him like a salmon on the top wave of a rapid. He sees his luck hangs by a single strand of gut, and he cannot tell whether it will hold or break. This is the thrilling moment and he never forgets it.
Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.
Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.
I'm only wishing to go a-fishing;For this the month of May was made.
In love and friendship, small, steady payments on a gold basis are better than immense promissory notes.
The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
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