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O thou who art able to write a book which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name city-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name conqueror or city-burner. - [Authorship] O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing! - [Time] Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall." - [Obedience] Of all acts is not, for a man, repentance the most divine? The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none. - [Repentance] Of all paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path for every man,--a thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do; which, could he but be led or driven to do, he were then doing like a man, as we phrase it. His success, in such a case, were complete, his felicity a maximum. - [Vocations] Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. - [Action : Duty] Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. - [Doing] Over the time thou hast no power; to redeem a world sunk in dishonesty has not been given thee; solely over one man therein thou hast a quite absolute, uncontrollable power; him redeem, him make honest. - [Self-control] Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk. - [Legislatures] Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given. - [Piety] Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own? - [Faith] Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious. - [Poetry] Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. - [Lying] Rare benevolence, the minister of God. - [Benevolence] Reform, like charity, must begin at home. - [Reform] Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; let your brain rest, you wearied and worried men of business; let your limbs rest, ye children of toil! - [Rest] Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it. - [Biography] Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish. - [Rogues] Sarcasm, I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil. - [Sarcasm] Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. - [Secrecy] See deep enough, and you see musically; the heart of nature being everywhere music, if you can only reach it. - [Music] Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after; the more surprising that we do not look around a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes. - [Present] Silence is deep as eternity; speech is shallow as time. - [Silence] Silence is the eternal duty of man. - [Silence] Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small. - [Silence] Displaying page 7 of 17 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 [7] 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
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