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Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.
Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.
Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.
What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.
We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.
Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.
What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.
The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.
All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.
You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.
We learn that God IS; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him.
As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.
The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.
What matters most is not what is behind us or before us, but what is within us.
Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.
The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.
Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? The sun shines today also.
The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.
Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.
The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.
Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
All substances the cunning chemist Time Melts down into that liquor of my life.
Dreams and beasts are two keys by which we find out the keys of our own nature.
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.
Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.
Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new.
Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.
One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.
Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement.
Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort, and joy?
The amount of a man's wealth consists in the number of things he can do without.
Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.