TuesdayJan 21, 2025
Quotes: 53419 Authors: 9969
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter in the eye.
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision.
Look twice before you leap.
Spoken to her husband of nine months, Rev. Arthur Nicholls. Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy.
Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.
Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter.
Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.
Life is so constructed that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master something that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself.
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.
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