"A man can never be idle with safety……" — Hamilton Wright Mabie
"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 and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been."
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Hamilton Wright Mabie
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19 Quotes by Hamilton Wright Mabie
Hamilton Wright Mabie has 19 quotes on this site.
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The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants but when…
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New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless…
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There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing…
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To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's…
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He strains his conversation through a cigar.
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Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.
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The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and…
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Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing for…
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Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which…
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The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company…
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It is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot…
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Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.
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