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Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about.
Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.
I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.
His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.
Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.
God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.
Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding
Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.
Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.
Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.
The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo.
Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate.
By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.
Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.
Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous.
The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.
But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.
Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.
'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.
The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American.
With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing.
Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.
It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.
Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.
The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.
The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.
In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.
There is no architect Can build as the Muse can; She is skilful to select Materials for her plan.
To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded.
Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.
Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a formalist, then is the worshipper defrauded and disconsolate.
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other.
As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.
Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.
English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.
What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.