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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.
The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.
All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Of all wit's uses, the main one is to live well with who has none.
A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will.
Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.
The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.
Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.
The world is the ring of his spells, And the play of his miracles.
For he that feeds men serveth few; He serves all who dares be true.
Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.
Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.
No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.
The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact.
Every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?
It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.
A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.
Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in everywhere.
God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive.
The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.
The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.
The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship
Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.
Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.
As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.
Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.
Living without Laughing isn't living. Be silly. Be honest. Be Kind.
You need someone who can inspire you to be what you know you can be
All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
If you have something to say, you will be given the power to say it.
Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf.
I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.
We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man, man.
There is a remedy for every wrong and a satisfaction for every soul.
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul
The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.
A man should not be a silkworm; nor a nation a tent of caterpillars.
Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.
For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.