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Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.
The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.
He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.
It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.
I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me.
The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.
The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.
A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.
The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.
What you are shouts at me so loudly that I can't hear a word you say.
You see, it's all clear, we were meant to be here from the beginning.
Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state.
Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.
Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.
The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them.
Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
It is obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers.
Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want.
I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation.
Love is the measure of life; only so far as we love do we really live.
A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action.
Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome?
A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.
The open road is the school of doubt in which man learns faith in man.
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.
A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
The years in your life are less important than the life in your years.
A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.
Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.
The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.
I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.
The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
The world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of liberty.
The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.
Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
There is nothing in history to parallel the influence of Jesus Christ.
As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting.
A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.
I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.
One man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars
The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.
A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.