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“The true secret of giving advice is after you have honestly given it to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right.”
“Faith is nothing at all tangible. ... It is simply believing God and like sight it is nothing apart from its object. You might as well shut your eyes and look inside and see whether you have sight ...”
“In grief we know the worst of what we feel But who can tell the end of what we fear?”
“To those who know thee not no words can paint! And those who know thee know all words are faint!”
“Love by its very nature is unworldly and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.”
“Ideas as distinguished from events are never unprecedented.”
“Imagination frames events unknown In wild fantastic shapes of hideous ruin And what it fears creates.”
“Going to the opera like getting drunk is a sin that carries its own punishment with it and that a very severe one.”
“Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness not the definition of helplessness but the feeling of it not figures of speech but earnestness of soul.”
“When satan sees a baby, however, he doesn’t see a fragile, sweet, gurgling child; he sees a potential grown-up who is bought by the blood of the lamb and filled with the power of the Holy Ghost, a ...”
“The keen spirit Seizes the prompt occasion, makes the thought Start into instant action, and at once Plans and performs, resolves and executes!”
“A crown! what is it?”
“It is to bear the miseries of a people! To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents, And sink beneath a load of splendid care! Daniel, Pt. VI”
“... There's a joy, To the fond votaries of fame unknown, To hear the still small voice of conscience speak In whisp'ring plaudit to the silent soul.”
“To those who know thee not, no words can paint!And those who know thee, know all words are faint!”
“Since trifles make the sum of human things,And half our misery from our foibles springs.”
“In men this blunder still you find,—All think their little set mankind.”
“Small habits well pursued betimesMay reach the dignity of crimes.”
“That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it.”
