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Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.
The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.
Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.
God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.
They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear.
A child convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. The reward for a thing well done, is to have done it.
And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.
If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.
Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.
A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature do undulate and flow.
We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.
There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.
There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.
Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.
When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds.
Insist on your life, never imitate... do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.
Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.
The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.
Ever fresh the broad creation, A divine improvisation, From the heart of God proceeds, A single will, a million deeds.
The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.
The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.
There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.
Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost, in wonder, love and praise.
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.
At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.
In design as in life, smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own.
The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity.
We need to infuse politics with ideas like compassion and empathy, and a sense that we live in an interdependent world.
Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing.
The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.
All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey.
Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.
Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.
There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eyes can integrate all the parts,--that is, the poet.
Think me not unkind and rude That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood To fetch his word to men.
He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.
What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!
England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.
Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.
Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.
Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.
I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.
Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.
English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.