291 quotes found
Lyric poet (65–8 BC) · Roman
Roman lyric poet (65–8 BC)
“Enjoy the present day trusting very little to the morrow.”
“Virtue is an angel but she is a blind one and must ask of Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.”
“It is good to have things that money can buy but it is also good to check up once in awhile and be sure we have the things money can't buy.”
“Go West young man and grow up with the country.”
“He who begun has half done. Dare to be wise begin.”
“Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived and those that are at present respectable will drop out if useage so choose with whom resides the decision and the judgment and the c...”
“This world is a comedy to those who think a tragedy to those who feel.”
“Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic countries; but schoolhouses are the republican l...”
“Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing, papermaking, and so forth. … All children will work bette...”
“God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked.”
“Lost — Yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.”
“Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals. As childhood advances to manhood, the transition from bad manners to bad morals is almost imperceptible. Vulgar and obscene forms of speech keep vulga...”
“Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, — the balance-wheel of the social machinery. I do not here mean that it so elevates the m...”
“Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate.”
“Observation — activity of both eyes and ears.”
“I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.”
“Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. We must purposely be kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence. The heart which goes out of itself gets large and full. This is ...”
“Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.”
“So much, then, my friends, is done, in the common and established course of nature, for the welfare of our children. Nature supplies a perennial force, unexhausted, inexhaustible, re-appearing when...”
“God is more to me than a grand and solitary Being, though refulgent with infinite perfections. Contemplated as enthroned in the midst of his works, his spiritual offspring in all the grand circuit ...”
