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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.
Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.
Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.
Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire.
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.
To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.
A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.
Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.
I know so little about any history. How little do I know even about the history of myself.
We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.
The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.
The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."
It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.
Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.
Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords?
It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.
The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.
One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.
Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?
Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.
We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal.
All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.
Music... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite.
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.
Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.
The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.
He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.
I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.