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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
Any revolution which denies the right to criticize is bound to wallow in stagnation and backwardness.
In a world full of shifting borders, everything is happening all at once in every possible direction.
I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.
The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - "Let there be truth between us two forevermore."
All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.
An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.
The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.
Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.
Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.
I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.
Life is too short to waste . . . 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!
The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.
The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.
I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.
Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.
You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.
Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself especially how you choose to think about your situation.
If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?
In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain.
All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.
The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.
A book is solitude, privacy; it is a way of holding the self apart from the crush of the outer world.
War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered.
Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles.
The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant.
To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.
The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5.
Movement is a fantastic privilege but it ultimately only has meaning if you have a home to go back to.
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
The boxer's ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.
I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.
The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul.
All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.
Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.
A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.
The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.
A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.
I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.