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A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new.
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.
The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.
Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.
Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.
We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.
Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? The sun shines today also.
Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.
A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.
The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.
As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.
Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.
What matters most is not what is behind us or before us, but what is within us.
Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.
One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.
The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.
The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.
Dreams and beasts are two keys by which we find out the keys of our own nature.
The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.
We learn that God IS; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him.
All substances the cunning chemist Time Melts down into that liquor of my life.
The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.
Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else.
Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and straight-laced.
The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.
Looking back at my high school years, I'm struck by how slowly history can move.
Sometimes the essay is where we end up when everything that we know must change.
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness.
Man is the merriest species of the creation; all above or below him are serious.
An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation
The gift finds the man attractive who stands with an empty bowl he does not own.
A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.
In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.
A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.
Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine
When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is pleased and satisfied.
Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins