All God's angels come to us disguised.
No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work with, for those who will, and blessed are the horny hands of toil. The busy world shoves angrily aside the man who stands with arms akimbo until occasion tells him what to do; and he who waits to have his task marked out shall die and leave his errand unfulfilled.
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
They have rights who dare maintain them.
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
Those who love are but one step from heaven.
Taste is the next gift to genius.
Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.
What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
Silence is sorrow's best food.
Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.
O reputation! dearer far than life.
With every step of the recent traveler our inheritance of the wonderful is diminished. Those beautiful pictured notes of the possible are redeemed at a ruinous discount in the hard coin of the actual.
There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.
Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will get intellectual bread.
They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek for sensual proof of supersensual things. If one came from the dead it could not believe; and yet it longs for such a witness, and will put up with a very dubious one.
The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.
Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!
They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin.
Fate loves the fearless.
Idleness induces caprice.
No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil.
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