God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
Joys divided are increased.
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul.
A mind grows by what it feeds on.
No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.
Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.
The secret of being loved is in being lovely; and the secret of being lovely is in being unselfish.
It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.
Poet, forger of ideals, dreamer among the possibilities of life, prophet of the millenium, do you get impatient with the prosaic life around you -- the dulness, and the earthliness, and the brutishness of men? Fret not. Go forward into the realm which stretches before you; climb the highest mountain you can reach, and plant a cross there. The nations will come up to it some day. Work for immortality if you will; then wait for it. If your own age fail to recognize you, a coming age will not.
Every man's powers have relation to some kind of work; and whenever he finds that kind of work which he can do best--that to which his powers are best adapted--he finds that which will give him the best development, and that by which he can best build up, or make, his manhood.
The moment that law is destroyed, liberty is lost, and men, left free to enter upon the domains of each other, destroy each other's rights, and invade the field of each other's liberty.
A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman's eyes; for God himself sits behind them.
He never said it would be easy, He just said He'd go with me.
Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.
Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.
Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility, and the young should not only shun it, but by the most thorough culture relieve themselves from all temptation to indulge in it. It is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are country neighborhoods in which it rages like a pest. Churches are split in pieces by it. Neighbors are made enemies by it for life. In many persons it degenerates into a chronic disease, which is practically incurable. Let the young cure it while they may.
A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.
Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.
Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.
Calmness is the cradle of power.
The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.
Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.
There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
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