All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.
The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.
Neither let mistakes and wrong directions - of which every man, in his studies and elsewhere, falls into many - discourage you. There is precious instruction to be got by finding that we are wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will grow daily more and more right. It is, at bottom, the condition which all men have to cultivate themselves. Our very walking is an incessant falling - a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement! - it is emblematic of all things a man does.
Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.
Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a Life-purpose... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is... Even in the meanest sorts of Labour, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work!
Feel it in thy heart and then say whether it is of God!
Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles.
Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!
The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
It is great, and there is no other greatness-to make one nook of God's Creation more fruitful, better, more worthy of God; to make some human heart a little wiser, manlier, happier-more blessed.
For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.
We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.
Affectation is the product of falsehood.
The age of miracles is forever here.
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.
Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other.
What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?
If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
Debt is a bottomless sea.
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