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Joys divided are increased.
We work and that is godlike.
Ideals are the world's masters.
Calmness is the cradle of power.
A mind grows by what it feeds on.
Humanity is constitutionally lazy.
Wants keep pace with wealth always.
Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic.
The temple of art is built in words.
Immortality--twin sister of Eternity.
A noble deed is a step towards heaven.
There are no twin souls in God's universe.
Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.
If you want learning, you must work for it.
He that cannot paint must grind the colors.
Wealth is the least trustworthy of anchors.
Geology gives us a key to the patience of God.
Life always take on the character of its motive.
It is the life in literature that acts upon life.
It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law.
A woman in love is a very poor judge of character.
Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.
The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.
Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.
All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery.
There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.
Posts of honor are evermore posts of danger and of care.
The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.
He never said it would be easy, He just said He'd go with me.
Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.
Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.
Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.
No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.
Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.
Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.
The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.
There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.
Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.
Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.
A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.
Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.
Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone.
Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.
Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.
The man who loves home best, and loves it most unselfishly, loves his country best.