The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.
Self-command is the main elegance.
What we call results are beginnings.
Wherever work is done, victory is attained.
The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.
The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.
The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
When it is darkest, we can see the stars.
Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.
We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent - for every effect a perfect cause - and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me,--when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. When I feel that we two meet in a perception, that our two souls are tinged with the same hue, and do as it were run into one, why should I measure degrees of latitude, why should I count Egyptian years?
When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.
You must let go of a thing for a new one to come to you.
How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
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