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I know nothing but the certainty of my own ignorance.
Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Prayer is a silent surrendering of everything to God.
A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.
If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.
The mind creates the abyss, and the heart crosses it.
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.
The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.
How great a Possibility, how small a realized Result.
Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.
The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .
To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.
Living should be perpetual and universal benediction.
Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power.
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing.
No one's mouth is big enough to utter the whole thing.
Spirit and body differ not essentially, but gradually.
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.
Excellence is not an art. It is the habit of practice.
The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.
The souls ability to nourish itself lies in the heart.
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole.
When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.
It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.
One of the rules of caution is not to be too cautious.
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
Affection cannot be created; it can only be liberated.
No opinion has ever been too errant to become a creed.
I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.
The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit.
What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be
In teaching there should be no distinction of classes.
Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.
If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?
I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.
Only the supremely wise and the ignorant do not alter.
Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed.
I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.
Be willing to learn, because none of us know the truth
You're trying to just leave the world a little better.
The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.
If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.