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Page 29
... strong ; it is not what we read , but what we remember , that makes us learned . THE happiness of life , like the light of day , consists not in one brilliant flash , but in a series of mild , serene rays . THE character and mind of the ...
... strong ; it is not what we read , but what we remember , that makes us learned . THE happiness of life , like the light of day , consists not in one brilliant flash , but in a series of mild , serene rays . THE character and mind of the ...
Page 49
... strong mind . A CIVIL answer to a rude speech costs not much , and is worth a great deal . DEAD men open the eyes of the living . THE useful and the beautiful are never far asunder . THERE never was a hypocrite so disguised , but he had ...
... strong mind . A CIVIL answer to a rude speech costs not much , and is worth a great deal . DEAD men open the eyes of the living . THE useful and the beautiful are never far asunder . THERE never was a hypocrite so disguised , but he had ...
Page 52
... STRONG character should never have the complete control of a weak one ; the weak cannot sympathise with the strong , and , to conceal his weakness , enters into a series of deceptions that often end fatally for the weak . We love much ...
... STRONG character should never have the complete control of a weak one ; the weak cannot sympathise with the strong , and , to conceal his weakness , enters into a series of deceptions that often end fatally for the weak . We love much ...
Page 56
... strong to live , as well as strong to think . PEOPLE should travel , if for no other reason than 56 DIAMOND DUST .
... strong to live , as well as strong to think . PEOPLE should travel , if for no other reason than 56 DIAMOND DUST .
Page 58
... strong and deep mind has two highest tides , when the moon is at the full , and when there is no moon . TRUTH is the object of philosophy . HALF of a fact is a whole falsehood . WE did not make the world , we may mend it , and must live ...
... strong and deep mind has two highest tides , when the moon is at the full , and when there is no moon . TRUTH is the object of philosophy . HALF of a fact is a whole falsehood . WE did not make the world , we may mend it , and must live ...
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Page 56 - It is easy' in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Page 176 - Genius, unexerted, is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks." There may be epics in men's brains, just as there are oaks in acorns, but the tree and the bark must come out before we can measure them.
Page 116 - It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity...
Page 123 - Then come the gloomy hours, when the fire will neither burn on our hearths nor in our hearts; and all without and within is dismal, cold, and dark. Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.
Page 5 - Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others ; and let the world be deceived in thee, as they are in the lights of heaven. Hang early plummets upon the heels of pride, and let ambition have but an epicycle and narrow circuit in thee. Measure not thyself by thy morning shadow, but by the extent of thy grave : and reckon thyself above the earth, by the line thou must be contented with under it.
Page 108 - If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them...
Page 106 - NONE are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them ; such persons covet secrets, as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
Page 151 - When the world has once got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to get it out of the world. You beat it about the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost; and, lo ! the next day it is as healthy as ever.
Page 55 - God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.
Page 24 - Books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason ; — they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.