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Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it
Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.
If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.
Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.
Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy?
Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter
Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.
The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.
There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.
Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.
In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain.
In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!
Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
Let us fill urns with rose-leaves in May And hive the the trifty sweetness for December!
He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.
The great secrets of being courted are, to shun others, and seem delighted with yourself.
Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter.
When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife.
Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.
The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.
Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.
Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .
O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.
The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it
The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.
A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles.
A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.
The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure.
The heart of a girl is like a convent--the holier the cloister, the more charitable the door.
Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.
There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.
Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.
There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.
We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.
In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail.
Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought.
We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark.
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.
The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it.
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.
Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.
Ah, what without a heaven would be even love!--a perpetual terror of the separation that must one day come.
There is no man so friendless but that he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.