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- He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty.
- There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.
- All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion ; and it is on the quality of this public opinion that…
- Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he…
- To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory that man has…
- The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by the few; Nothing…
- He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent…
- How I do love the earth. I feel it thrill under my feet. I feel somehow as if it were conscious of my love, as…
- From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its…
- The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.
- These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon; The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald…
- Hush! Still as death, The tempest holds his breath As from a sudden will; The rain stops short, but from the eaves You see it…
- In the storm, like a prophet o’ermaddened, Thou singest and tossest thy branches; Thy heart with the terror is gladdened, Thou forebodest the dread avalanches....…
- The pale and quiet moon Makes her calm forehead bare, And the last fragments of the storm, Like shattered rigging from a fight at sea,…
- That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.
- Those who love are but one step from heaven.
- A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by. Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me, For Christ's sweet sake…
- He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery Than…
- The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human, It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman.
- One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.
- Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole…
- Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
- Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
- Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a…
- Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower,…
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