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- Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul…
- A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
- The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
- True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter,…
- Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own…
- It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible;…
- The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened,…
- When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass…
- These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of…
- If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
- Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.
- Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
- Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as…
- Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on…
- If you will believe me, you who are young, yours is the golden season of life. As you have heard it called, so it verily…
- Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.
- Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.
- To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on,…
- Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a…
- The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that…
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