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To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.
Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.
Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.
Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or, rather, have made it desired.
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power.
To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul - HOPE
True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.
Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.
When everything is in its right place within us, we ourselves are in balance with the whole work of God.
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium--an accident.
There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept ourselves.
Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.
Time is but the space between our memories; as soon as we cease to perceive this space, time has disappeared.
The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.
When everything has its proper place in our minds, we are able to stand in equilibrium with the rest of the world.
Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.
The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public.
Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.
Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth.
The musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is new.
Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.
Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art.
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.