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It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty.
Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations.
The errors of the observer come from the qualities of the human mind.
I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.
If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.
Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.
Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.
Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.
If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ.
All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.
It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself.
I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.
Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.
A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer.
The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.
The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights.
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.
You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.
Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep.
Zweck sein selbst ist jegliches Tier. Each animal is an end in itself.
It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.
When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
If everyone sweeps before his own front door, then the street is clean.
A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.
But when all is said, the greatest art is to limit and isolate oneself.
To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.
One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.
What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.
We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think.
Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
Mastery is proven only in limitation, and law alone can give us freedom.
It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.
One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame
Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.
A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.
He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.
Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose.