Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever, ’twixt that darkness and that light.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.
What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised.
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.
Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.
Beauty hath no true glass, except it be in the sweet privacy of loving eyes.
Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.
Folks never understand the folks they hate.
No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.
It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.
Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.
Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,- Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.
The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.
Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on.
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