924 quotes found
“Nothing is more simple than greatness indeed to be simple is to be great.”
“If you put a chain around the neck of a slave the other end fastens itself around your own.”
“The one thing in the world of value is the active soul.”
“Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradict everything you said today.”
“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 lives.”
“Strong men greet war tempest hard times. They wish as Pindar said to tread the floors of hell with necessities as hard as iron.”
“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 T...”
“Every sweet hath its sour every evil its good.”
“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?”
“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.”
“To finish the moment to find the journey's end in every step of the road to live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.”
“When there is no vision people perish.”
“By the rude bridge that arched the flood Their flag to April's breeze unfurl'd Here once the embattl'd farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world.”
“Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance arms us with terrible freedom so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge yet not the details but the quali...”
“Good-bye proud world! I'm going home Thou are not my friend I am not thine.”
“What torments of grief you endured from evils that never arrived.”
“Some of your hurts you have cured And the sharpest you still have survived But what torments of grief you endured From the evil which never arrived.”
