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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.
I had a lifelong quarrel with God, but in the end we made up.
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.
All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.
The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.
A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.
Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero.
The All of Things is an infinite conjugation of the verb To do .
A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.
Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.
To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant
Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?
It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.
Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.
There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them.
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.
The greatest security against sin is to be shocked at its presence.
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief
A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
A word spoken in season, at the right moment; is the mother of ages.
Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.
Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own?
I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.
Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.
Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.