Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things.
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!
Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?
There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.
Speech is silver, silence is golden.
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else.
Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that we are; oh, think, if thou yet love anybody living, wait not till death sweep down the paltry little dust clouds and dissonances of the moment, and all be made at last so mournfully clear and beautiful, when it is too late.
You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand."
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.
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