FridayJun 26, 2026
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Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
It is astonishing how well men wear when they think of no one but themselves.
He who would keep himself to himself should imitate the dumb animals, and drink water.
Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied And less ostentatiously vaunted than that of exquisite feeling or universal benevolence.
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
Nature's loving proxy, the watchful mother.
Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain.
It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves, either in imagination or practice.
Innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.
Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, But the happiest are usually the best.
Genius does what it must, talent does what it can.
Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.
Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
Business dispatched is business well done, But business hurried is business ill done.
A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing broken ties. Meet again you may; will it be in the same way?
Master books, but do not let them master you.- Read to live, not live to read.
I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of Bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child.
There are many more fools in the world than there are knaves, otherwise the knaves could not exist.
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.
What men want is not talent; it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
There is one form of hope which is never unwise, and which certainly does not diminish with the increase of knowledge. In that form it changes its name, and we call it patience.
Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.
The veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy.
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.
That one vast thought of God which we call the world.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.
Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of power.
Poverty is the wicked man's tempter, the good man's perdition, the proud man's curse, the melancholy man's halter.
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
Alone!that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!
The brilliant chief, irregularly great, Frank, haughty, rash, the Rupert of debate!
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.
Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beausant, a wise proverb The Arabs have,'Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost.'
Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.
Here Stanley meets, how Stanley scorns the glance! The brilliant chief, irregularly great, Frank, haughty, rash, the Rupert of Debate
Buy my flowers,oh buy, I pray! The blind girl comes from afar.
There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
It is difficult to say who does you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.
Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherds crook Beside the scepter
We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.
When stars are in the quiet skies, Then most I pine for thee; Bend on me, then, thy tender eyes, As stars look on the sea!
In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgement on the few.
Ah, never can fall from the days that have been A gleam on the years that shall be!
What is past is past. There is a future left to all men who have the virtue to repent, and the energy to atone.
Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the sword.
In other countries poverty is a misfortune with us it is a crime.
Poverty has strange bedfellows.
Rank is a great beautifier.
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.
Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble;but the religion of Christ, which is the sublime civilizer, emphatically condemns it. Why? Because religion ever seeks to ennoble man; and nothing so debases him as revenge.
The easiest person to deceive is ones own self.
Take away the sword; States can be saved without it.
Every great man exhibits the talent of organization or construction, whether it be in a poem, a philosophical system, a policy, or a strategy. And without method there is no organization nor construction.
What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.
The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.
Two lives that once part are like ships that divide. There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed.
In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As fail !
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