924 quotes found
“The one thing in the world of value is the active soul.”
“Excite the soul and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear the world itself loses its solidity nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it li...”
“Strong men greet war tempest hard times. They wish as Pindar said to tread the floors of hell with necessities as hard as iron.”
“Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.”
“Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.”
“What is success? To laugh often and much To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends...”
“The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.”
“Every sweet hath its sour every evil its good.”
“Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining but they make them artificial.”
“If a man carefully examines his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead.”
“A man builds a fine house and now he has a master and a task for life is to furnish watch show it and keep it in repair the rest of his life.”
“This time like all times is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.”
“Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?”
“The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild.”
“With the past I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now.”
“We can see well into the past we can guess shrewdly in to the future but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.”
“Live wastes itself while we are preparing to live.”
“No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and ridiculous.”
“God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.”
“O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.”
