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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on.
Analysis is carried into everything. Even Deity is subjected to chemical tests.
If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of the oncoming train.
Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
'T is heaven alone that is given away; 'T is only God may be had for the asking.
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.
Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.
A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.
The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.
Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.
In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.
Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
New conditions of life will stimulate thought and give new forms to its expression.
An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.
In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.
If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.
Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.
One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.
For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me.
Love lives on, and hath a power to bless when they who loved are hidden in the grave.
Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow.
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.
A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes.
At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.
In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.
Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; We are happy now because God wills it.
Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.
A marciful Providunce fashioned us holler O' purpose thet we might our principles swaller.
Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.
Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face.
Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.
The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.