It is a luxury to be understood.
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
Some people are born very far from home.
Knowledge is the only elegance.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
No matter how often defeated, you are born to victory.
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.
You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.
The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.
I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.
Wherever work is done, victory is attained.
Self-command is the main elegance.
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds.
Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.
What we call results are beginnings.
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.
Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.
By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
When it is darkest, we can see the stars.
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