A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.
Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.
And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.
The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.
Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us, We bargain for the graves we lie in; Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold... 'T is heaven alone that is given away, 'T is only God may be had for the asking; There is no price set on the lavish summer, And June may be had by the poorest comer.
The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change... [Truth's] mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past.
The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.
Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.
One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.
The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.
Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with anothers need; Not what we give, but what we share, For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
Endurance is the crowning quality.
That best academy, a mother's knee.
Imagination, where it is truly creative, is a faculty, and not a quality; it looks before and after, it gives the form that makes all the parts work together harmoniously toward a given end, its seat is in the higher reason, and it is efficient only as a servant of the will. Imagination, as it is too often misunderstood, is mere fantasy, the image-making power, common to all who have the gift of dreams.
In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing.
History is clarified experience.
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