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I have sped by land and sea, and mingled with much people, but never yet could find a spot unsunned by human kindness. - [Kindness] If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little. - [Self] If wealth come, beware of him, the smooth, false friend! There is treachery in his proffered hand; his tongue is eloquent to tempt; lust of many harms is lurking in his eye; he hath a hollow heart; use him cautiously. - [Wealth] Imagination is not thought, neither is fancy reflection; thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle. - [Imagination] Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes. - [Invention] It is the cringer to his equal that is chiefly seen bold to his God. - [Humility] Know thyself, thy evil as thy good, and flattery shall not harm thee; yea, her speech shall be a warning, a humbling, and a guide. For wherein thou lackest most, there chiefly will the sycophant commend thee. - [Flattery] Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all things; but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome; ill at ease and out of place. - [Knowledge] Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith. - [Faith] Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure; the most are rather lovable than hateful. - [Misanthropy] Lies can destroy, but not create. - [Lying] Love is the weapon which Omnipotence reserved to conquer rebel man when all the rest had failed. Reason he parries; fear he answers blow for blow; future interest he meets with present pleasure; but love, that sun against whose melting beams the winter cannot stand--that soft subliming slumber which wrestles down the giant, there is not one human being in a million, nor a thousand men in all earth's huge quintillion, whose clay heart is hardened against love. - [Love] Love looketh from the eye, and kindleth love by looking. - [Eyes] Love with life is heaven; and life, unloving, hell. - [Love] Many a beggar at the crossway, or gray-haired shepherd on the plain, hath more of the end of all wealth than hundreds who multiply the means. - [Wealth] Many in hot pursuit have hasted to the goal of wealth, but have lost, as they ran, those apples of gold, the mind and the power to enjoy it. - [Wealth] Men scanning the surface count the wicked happy; they see not the frightful dreams that crowd a bad man's pillow. - [Sin] Nature is the chart of God, mapping out all His attributes. - [Nature] Never give up! it is wiser and better Always to hope, than once to despair; Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter, And break the dark spell of tyrannical Care: Never give up or the burden may sink you,-- Providence kindly has mingled the cup; And in all trials and troubles, bethink you The watchword of life must be,--never give up. - [Hope] None is poor but the mean in mind, the timorous, the weak, and unbelieving; none is wealthy but the affluent in soul, who is satisfied and floweth over. - [Contentment] O Death, what are thou? nurse of dreamless slumbers freshening the fevered flesh to a wakefulness eternal. - [Death] O Death, what art thou? a Lawgiver that never altereth, Fixing the consummating seal, whereby the deeds of life become established; O Death, what art thou? a stern and silent usher, Leading to the judgment for Eternity, after the trial scene of Time; O Death, what art thou? an husbandman that reapeth always, Out of season, as in season, with the sickle in his hand. - [Death] O man, little hast thou learnt of truth in things most true, and how therefore shall thy blindness wot of truth in things most fallen? - [Truth] Our cares are all To-day, our joys are all To-day; And in one little word, our life, what is it but--To-day? - [Today] Pain addeth zest unto pleasure, and teacheth the luxury of health. - [Pain] Displaying page 2 of 4 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4
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