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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.
The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
Love, and you shall be loved.
The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
Every wall is a door.
We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?
The years teach much which the days never know.
Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Every artist was first an amateur.
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Live in the sunshine.
Be an opener of doors
Genius Borrows nobly.
Look out! Behind you!
Nature abhors the old.
Great men are sincere.
I unsettle all things.
Immitation is suicide.
Genius is its own end.
Fear is cruel and mean.
First be a good animal.
Tart, cathartic virtue.
Activity is contagious.
Life is our dictionary.
Postpone not your life.
Music and Wine are one.
I like man, but not men.
Convert life into truth.
