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A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them. - [Calumny] Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence. - [Carelessness] Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character. - [Courage] He came, bringing with Him the knowledge that God is a Being of infinite goodness; that the service required of mankind is not a service of form or ceremony, but a service of obedience. - [Christ] High original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation in working on the established lines. Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it. - [Genius] If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting there over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man to his ruin. You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself one. - [Action] Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a divine command, without which it would cease to be. - [Morality] Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous. - [Deceit] The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. - [Belief] The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by their wisest forethought. - [God] Thirst of power and of riches now bear sway, The passion and infirmity of age. - [Age] Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion. - [Happiness] Thy plain and open nature sees mankind But in appearance, not what they are. - [Appearance] To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world. - [Happiness] To he happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world. - [Happiness] To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair. - [Despair] We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing. - [Faith] Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial. - [Nature] Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God. - Holy and Profane States--The True Church Antiquary (maxim I) [Religion] The four eights, that ideal of operative felicity, are here (New Zealand) a realized fact. - Oceana (ch. XIV), the four eights meaning "eight to work, eight to play, eight to sleep, and eight shillings a day [Time] We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters. - Short Studies on Great Subjects, Society in Italy in the Last Days of the Roman Republic [Experience] Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them. - Short Studies on Great Subjects--Calvinism [Law] Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve. - Short Studies on Great Subjects--Calvinism [Philosophy] The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line. - Short Studies on Great Subjects--Calvinism [Morality] There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease. - Short Studies on Great Subjects--Calvinism [Nobility] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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