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All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.
We arc the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God.
What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay.
Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?
If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.
Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.
For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.
The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.
Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.
Out of Eternity the new day is born; Into Eternity at night will return.
He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.
Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.
We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.
Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.
Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other.
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
I have no patience whatever with these gorilla damnifications of humanity.
A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!
Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.
Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.
The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.
And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.
Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.
If I had my way, the world would hear a pretty stern command - Exit Christ.
'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.
The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?
There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.
Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.
Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things.
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us?
Is not light grander than fire? It is the same element in a state of purity.
Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other.