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There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
Of all the scamps society knows, the traditional good fellow is the most despicable.
The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.
It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.
A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.
God give us men. The time demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands.
God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling.
There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.
I have learned that to do one's next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing.
Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.
Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other.
It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny.
The secret of being loved is in being lovely; and the secret of being lovely is in being unselfish.
Play may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but is has as legitimate a place as prayer.
A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.
The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames.
The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.
A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.
The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.
There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.
Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.
There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance.
Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.
if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.
Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul.
If we will measure other people's corn in our own bushel, let us first take it to the Divine standard, and have it sealed.
Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.
Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.
Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.
Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.
No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of a nation are the bulwarks of personal and national safety and thrift.
I look into your great brown eyes, where love and loyal homage shine, and wonder where the difference lies between your soul and mine!.
Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.
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.
Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.
A man who in the struggles of life has no home to retire to, in fact or in memory, is without life's best rewards and life's best defences.
A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman's eyes; for God himself sits behind them.
The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.
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.
I softly sink into the bath of sleep: With eyelids shut, I see around me close The mottled, violet vapors of the deep, That wraps me in repose.
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.
Ah! soul of mine! Ah! soul of mine! Thy sluggish senses are but bars That stand between thee and the stars, And shut thee from the world divine.
The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.
We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.
In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect.
God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does.
I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God-- Lifting the soul from the common clod To a purer air and a broader view.
Why will you be always sallying out to break lances with other people's wind-mills, when your own is not capable of grinding corn for the horse you ride?