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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.   Love
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about ...  
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.  
A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of f...  
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as...  
A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and fol...  
A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.  
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.  
Action hangs, as it were, "dissolved" in speech, in thoughts whereof s...  
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.  
All great peoples are conservative.  
All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work ...  
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic pr...  
As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of belie...  
Be not a slave of words.  
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness...   Business
Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-...  
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.  
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.  
Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself in...  
Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were cr...  
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then becom...  
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.  
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.  
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.  
Every noble work is at first impossible.  
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we...  
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and ano...  
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed...  
For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essenti...  
For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far tr...  
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirt...  
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.  
He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for t...  
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.  
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic geni...  
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.  
I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is ...  
I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger ...  
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.  
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kin...  
If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if ...  
If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.  
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk...  
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being ...  
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understa...  
Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushe...  
In books lies the soul of the whole past time.  
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable mome...  
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, wi...  
Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.  
It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest h...  
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.  
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from t...  
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to th...  
Let each become all that he was created capable of being.  
Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and ...  
Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parli...  
Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common th...  
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one les...  
Man is a tool-using Animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; wit...  
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession...  
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.  
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, reb...  
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.   Music
Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among ...  
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as heigh...  
Necessity dispenseth with decorum.  
No age seemed the age of romance to itself.  
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.  
No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.  
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biogra...  
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul ...  
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to...  
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irre...  
No person is important enough to make me angry.  
No pressure, no diamonds.  
No violent extreme endures.  
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding excep...  
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this wo...  
Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there br...  
Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I mi...  
Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.  
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.  
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.  
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply...  
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness real...  
Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all ...  
Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.  
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have...  
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certain...  
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarr...  
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance,but to d...  
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, d...  
Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves ...  
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for wh...  
Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.  
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is my...  
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.  
Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of pe...  
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.  
Silence is more eloquent than words.  
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves togeth...  
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefo...  
Surely of all the 'rights of man', this right of the ignorant man to b...  
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed alto...  
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economi...  
That monstrous tuberosity of civilized life, the capital of England.  
The actual well seen is ideal.  
The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.  
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak,...  
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, bu...  
The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of t...  
The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim ...  
The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the...  
The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest...  
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.  
The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.  
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he ca...  
The foul sluggard's comfort: 'It will last my time.'  
The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.  
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.  
The mathematics of high achievement  
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.  
The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor....  
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over e...  
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking a...  
The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and...  
The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were...  
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.  
The spiritual is the parent of the practical.  
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing,...  
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing ...   Business
The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.  
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our...  
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of pay...  
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle won...  
Thought is the parent of the deed.  
Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a Sy...  
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and...  
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is n...  
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that i...  
We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that cash-payment is not the s...  
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.  
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors hav...  
What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.  
When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individu...  
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hun...  
When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force o...  
Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that r...  
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance -...  
Work alone is noble.  
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hop...