It is better to be a self-made man,--filled up according to God's original pattern,--than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern.
Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.
Wants keep pace with wealth always.
There are no twin souls in God's universe.
There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.
There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.
The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.
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.
Geology gives us a key to the patience of God.
A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand that won it the property of endurance.
Music was a thing of the soul — a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea — a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.
Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul.
No man ever feels the restraint of law so long as he remains within the sphere of his liberty -- a sphere, by the way, always large enough for the full exercise of his powers and the supply of all his legitimate wants.
Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.
Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.
Humanity is constitutionally lazy.
And when, in the evening of life, the golden clouds rest sweetly and invitingly upon the golden mountains, and the light of heaven streams down through the gathering mists of death, I wish you a peaceful and abundant entrance into that world of blessedness, where the great riddle of life will be unfolded to you in the quick consciousness of a soul redeemed and purified.
I look into your great brown eyes, where love and loyal homage shine, and wonder where the difference lies between your soul and mine!.
The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.
Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone.
There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.
We work and that is godlike.
Work was made for man, and not man for work. Work is man's servant, both in its results to the worker and the world. Man is not work's servant, save as an almost universal perversion has made him such.
Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.
There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.
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