All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
But harder still it has proved to resist and rule the dragon Money, with his paper wings. Chancellors and Boards of Trade, Pitt, Peel, and Bobinson, and their parliaments, and their whole generation, adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing.
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief in denying them.
There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.
Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no pure malignity in nature. The entertainment of the proposition of depravity is the last profligacy and profanation. There is no skepticism, no atheism but that. Could it be received into common belief, suicide would unpeople the planet.
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.
We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions.
The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.
We live in a very low state of the world, and pay unwilling tribute to government founded on force. There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations, a reliance on the moral sentiment, and a sufficient belief in the unity of things to persuade them that society can be maintained without artificial restraints, as well as the solar system; or that the private citizen might be reasonable, and a good neighbor, without the hint of a jail or a confiscation.
Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.
As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.
That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.
Every man believes he has a greater possibility.
Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger lies in the way of duty, knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny. If you believe in Fate to your harm, believe it, at least, for your good.
The bulk of mankind believe in two gods. They are under one dominion here in the house, as friend and parent, in social circles, in letters, in art, in love, in religion; but in mechanics, in dealing with steam and climate, in trade, in politics, they think they come under another.
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed up, and all trace of them gone. We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of men's minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers held and were framed upon.
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