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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
A collection of books is the best of all universities.
No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
Doubt of any kind cannot be resolved except by action.
Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.
Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.
Feel it in thy heart and then say whether it is of God!
Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.
With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much.
Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.
The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.
Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers.
What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease.
Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?
Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History Books!
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.
My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls.
Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities?
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.
The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.
Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.
Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.
The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow.
The true university of these days is a collection of books.
There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.
There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy.
One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.
Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.
The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.
Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy
A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.
Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.
The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.