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The mathematics of high achievement
Biography is the only true history.
Violence does even justice unjustly.
Speech is silver, silence is golden.
The age of miracles is forever here.
Variety is the condition of harmony.
Silence is more eloquent than words.
The great soul of this world is just.
History after all is the true poetry.
History is the distillation of rumour.
Earnestness alone makes life eternity.
Rare benevolence, the minister of God.
See deep enough, and you see musically.
Caution is the lower story of prudence.
The genuine essence of truth never dies.
Habit is the deepest law of human nature
Affectation is the product of falsehood.
Thought will not work except in silence.
Speech is great, but silence is greater.
My books are friends that never fail me.
Every noble work is at first impossible.
A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.
In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
The Highest Being reveals himself in man.
Happy the people whose annals are vacant.
All comes out even at the end of the day.
Reform, like charity, must begin at home.
Eyes bright, with many tears, behind them.
In a certain sense all men are historians.
The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.
Infinite is the help man can yield to man.
Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
Without kindness there can be no true joy.
Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.
No age seemed the age of romance to itself.
The universe is but one vast Symbol of God.
All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
Literature is the thought of thinking souls.
Not one false man but doth uncountable evil.
No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
Creation is great, and cannot be understood.
There are remedies for all things but death.
The purpose of man is in action not thought.
Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.
The press is the fourth estate of the realm.
Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.
Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.
Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.