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Every thought is public, Every nook is wide; Thy gossips spread each whisper, And the gods from side to side.
There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.
These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.
Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.
As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.
We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.
Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.
To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.
Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.
You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you will get the power
Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.
There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.
If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.
The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea; The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me.
As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.
No man ever came to an experience which was satiating, but his good is tidings of a better. Onward and onward!
Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.
Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.
The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.
Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.
A determined man, by his very attitude and the tone of his voice, puts a stop to defeat, and begins to conquer.
It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.
God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.
He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.
We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.
The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion of well-doing and daring.
To clothe the fiery thought In simple words succeeds, For still the craft of genius is To mask a king in weeds.
Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.
Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.
God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful or great, but He does intend us all to be friends.
Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?
Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.
General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.
Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.
But we need not fear that we can lose any thing by the progress of the soul. The soul may be trusted to the end.
How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement
There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.
Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.