When you are in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.
Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp polish, a delicate and perfect taste; while that fitted for the people is characterized by a vigorous natural fulness, a profound depth of feeling, and an engaging naivete.
The happy do not believe in miracles.
It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty.
The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.
Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?
An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.
Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable.
People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.
If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.
I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.
Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.
Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.
We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish or necessity of his own, toils after gold, honour, or any other phantom, is no better than a fool.
Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.
Originality provokes originality.
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.
There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.
The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
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