924 quotes found
“If a man has good corn or wood or boards or pigs to sell or can make better chairs or knives crucibles or church organs than anybody else you will find a broad hardbeaten road to his house though i...”
“A believer a mind whose faith is consciousness is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.”
“Give all to love obey thy heart.”
“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes...”
“For everything you have missed you have gained something else.”
“His heart was as great as the world but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.”
“We take care of our health we lay up money we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all-friends.”
“No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it he must serve it too.”
“Go oft to the house of thy friend for weeds choke the unused path.”
“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.”
“To believe your own thought to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.”
“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.”
“We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe can we not take the leap?”
“We are always getting ready to live but never living.”
“Accept the place the divine providence has found for you the society of your contemporaries the connection of events.”
“In nature nothing can be given all things are sold.”
“The meaning of good and bad of better and worse is simply helping or hurting.”
“Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactor.”
“Discontent is want of self-reliance it is infirmity of will.”
“Five great enemies to peace inhabit us: avarice ambition envy anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.”
