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- "Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any…
- I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life,…
- There is no law of history any more than of a kaleidoscope.
- I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.
- The Bible is the one Book to which any thoughtful man may go with any honest question of life or destiny and find the answer…
- Do not think it wasted time to submit yourself to any influence that will bring upon you any noble feeling.
- It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time…
- Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.
- I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in…
- The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its…
- You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as…
- Temperance, in the nobler sense, does not mean a subdued and imperfect energy; it does not mean a stopping short in any good thing, as…
- All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it,…
- No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an…
- In the range of inorganic nature. I doubt if any object can be found more perfectly beautiful than a fresh, deep snowdrift, seen under warm…
- Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared…
- Noone can do me any good by loving me, I have more love than I need or could do any good with, but people do…
- Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal
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