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Duty is the demand of the hour. - [Duty] Each one sees what he carries in his heart. - [Observation] Energy will do anything that can be done in this world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two-legged animal a man without it. - [Energy] Enjoy what thou hast inherited from thy sires if thou wouldst possess it; what we employ not is an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by. - [Inheritance] Enjoy what you can, endure what you must. - [Enjoyment : Endurance] Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind. - [Libraries] Every author, in some degree, portrays himself in his works even be it against his will. - [Authorship] Every beginning is cheerful; the threshold is the place of expectation. - [Expectation] Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way. - [Temptation] Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life. - [Creativity] Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion. - [Guilt] Every reader reads himself out of the book that he reads; nay, has he a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with the author's. - [Reading] Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author. - [Readers] Every second is of infinite value. - [Time] Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake. - [Youth] Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine. - [Simplicity] Faith is a homely, private capital; as there are public savings-banks and poor funds, out of which in times of want we can relieve the necessities of individuals, so here the faithful take their coin in peace. - [Faith] Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion. - [Persuasion] Few rash of any modern nation have a proper sense of an aesthetical whole; they praise and blame by parts; they are charmed by passages. And who has greater reason to rejoice in this than actors, since the stage is ever but a patched and piecemeal matter? - [Acting] Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature, with which she indicates how much she loves us. - [Flowers] Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fool and the half wise that the danger lies. - [Danger] For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is. - [Greatness] For all guilt is avenged on earth. - [Crime] For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation. - [Words] Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off. - [Self-reliance] Displaying page 3 of 21 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
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