If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Action has magic, grace and power in it.
Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint.
Create, artist, do not talk.
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.
Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.
The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.
Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.
Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.
Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this further advantage that they can also teach their organs in return.
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived as a straight line before it is ever drawn with pencil and paper...the fountain of all thought has been opened to him...the philosopher can reveal him nothing new, as a geometrician he has discovered the basis of all thought.
All things are only transitory.
Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.
Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.
The eternal feminine draws us on high.
The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.
To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.
To live in a great idea means to treat the impossible as though it were possible. It is just the same with a strong character; and when an idea and a character meet, things arise which fill the world with wonder for thousands of years.
True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.
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