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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
the excess of all good things is mischievous.
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word-father.
Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.
The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.
A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me.
Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.
An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
The United States is a warning rather than an example to the world.
Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.
[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being.
Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.
It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world.
So easy it is to see the errors of past ages, so difficult to acknowledge our own!
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
a great mind can attend to little things, but a little mind cannot attend to great things.
But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.
Whoso does not see that genuine life is a battle and a march has poorly read his origin and his destiny.
Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.
Woman stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap on the ballot box.
Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.
We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.
The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; She never produces classes.
Genius hath electric power; Which earth can never tame; Bright suns may scorch and dark clouds lower; Its flash is still the same.
Ah, my friend, that is the only true church organization, when heads and hearts unite in working for the welfare of the human race!
I think we have reason to thank God for Abraham Lincoln. With all his deficiencies, it must be admitted that he has grown continually.
affectation is fond of making a greater show than reality. ... Nature and truth have never learned to blow the trumpet, and never will.
It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.
I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.
We must not forget that all great revolutions and reformations would look mean and meagre if examined in detail as they occurred at the time.
I keep working because I am quite sure that no particle of goodness or truth is ever really lost, however appearances may be to the contrary.
Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.
Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow.
Love is the divine quality that everywhere produces and restores life. To each and every one of us, it gives the power of working miracles if we will.
A human heart can never grow old if it takes a lively interest in the pairing of birds, the reproduction of flowers, and the changing tints of autumn leaves.
That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.
Thy treasures of gold Are dim with the blood of the hearts thou hast sold; Thy home may be lovely, but round it I hear The crack of the whip, and the footsteps of fear.
Philosophy and the arts are but a manifestation of the intelligible ideas that move the public mind; and thus they become visible images of the nations whence they emanate.
Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism.
Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.
There have always been a large class of thinkers who deny that the world makes any progress. They say we move in a circle; that evils are never conquered, but only change their forms.
Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.
Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient to banish it from the earth, as one of the worst enemies of mankind.
