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- Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
- Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
- One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
- Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it…
- Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life,…
- Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its…
- 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 we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may…
- Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.
- To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.
- Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets…
- Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to…
- Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which…
- The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.
- Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not :…
- The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which…
- Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility? Oh, Heaven, it…
- Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into…
- Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into…
- The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for…
- We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our…
- So here hath been dawning Another blue day; Think, wilt thou let it Slip useless away? Out of eternity This new day is born, Into…
- A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a whole volition advances…
- I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
- Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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