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Patience and fortitude conquer all things. - [Patience] People are to be taken in very small doses. - [Society] People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with bad. - [Literature] People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint. - [Eyes] People only see what they are prepared to see. - [Perception] People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. - [Opinion] People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never. - [Greatness] Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art. - [Art] Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity. - [Poetry] Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts. - [Politics] Postpone not your life. - [Procrastination] Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity. - [Power] Pride eradicates all vices but itself. - [Pride] Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride. - [Pride] Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow. - [Progress] Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity. - [Providence] Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life. - [Prudence] Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens within the flower of the pleasure that concealed it. - [Punishment] Quotation confesses inferiority. - [Quotations] Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed. - in an address dedicating Concord library, May, 1873 [Reading] Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty. - [Religion] Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman--repose in energy. - [Gentlemen] Revolutions never go backwards. - [Progress] Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom. - [Right] Say, what other metre is it Than the meeting of the eyes? Nature poureth into nature Through the channels of that feature Riding on the ray of sight, Fleeter far than whirlwinds go, Or for service, or delight, Hearts to hearts their meaning show. - [Eyes] Displaying page 17 of 39 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 [17] 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39
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