Hamilton Wright Mabie Quotes

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• The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants but when she resolutely holds him to…
• New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created…
• There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a man's character more…
• To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.
• He strains his conversation through a cigar.
• Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.
• The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is…
• Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing for - life by keeping eyes,…
• Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and…
• The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company from the press, lies unnoticed;…
• A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times…
• It is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot at the wharves in ignoble…
• Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.
• The test of friendship is its fidelity when every charm of fortune and environment has been spent away, and the bare, undraped character alone remains;…
• A cottage will hold as much happiness as would stock a palace.
• Man is incomprehensible without Nature and Nature is incomprehensible apart from man. For the delicate loveliness of the flower is as much in the human…
• Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
• The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what…
• Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for…

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