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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
Consult duty not events.
Falsehood is for a season.
Hope is the mother of faith.
Cats like men are flatterers.
Delay in justice is injustice.
How sweet and sacred idleness is!
Children are what the mothers are.
Virtue is presupposed in friendship.
Cats ask plainly for what they want.
Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.
Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.
What is reading but silent conversation?
Great men always pay deference to greater.
We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
The sublime is contained in a grain of dust.
Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable.
Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
Contentment is better than divinations or visions.
There is a vast deal of vital air in loving words.
A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.
Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.
The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
Life is but sighs; and, when they cease, 'tis over.
It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.
Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.
There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.
Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.
True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.
Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it.
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.
Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.
Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
The assailant is often in the right; that the assailed is always.
Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love.
Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.
