The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.
Every man I meet is in some way my superior...
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.
No matter how often defeated, you are born to victory.
Love is the essence of God.
There is always a best way of doing everything.
When it's dark enough men see stars.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment.
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Sorrow makes us all children again.
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.
Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.
Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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.
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.
By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.
Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into.
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