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He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.
Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.
I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
Work alone is noble.
Rest is for the dead.
Nature admits no lie.
The devil has his elect.
Laughter means sympathy.
All true work is sacred.
Be not a slave of words.
The end of man is action.
No pressure, no diamonds.
Debt is a bottomless sea.
History is the new poetry.
Man is a tool-using animal.
No violent extreme endures.
The king is the man who can.
Love not Pleasure; love God.
I want to meet my God awake.
History is a great dust heap.
A noble book! all men's book!
Leaders: Captains of industry.
Song is the heroics of speech.
Society is founded upon Cloth.
Thirty millions, mostly fools.
The actual well seen is ideal.
Is not light grander than fire?
Wonder is the basis of worship.
A man's perfection is his work.
Worship is transcendent wonder.
History: A distillation of rumor.
The archenemy is the arch stupid!
Thought is the parent of the deed.
History, a distillation of rumour.
Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
A man perfects himself by working.
Endurance is patience concentrated.
Time has only a relative existence.
All great peoples are conservative.
Close thy Byron ; open thy Goethe .
Society is founded on hero-worship.
Silence is the eternal duty of man.
Custom doth make dotards of us all.
Lies exist only to be extinguished.
A man lives by believing something.
