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The greater the man the greater the courtesy.

Ah, what shall I be at fifty,
should nature keep me alive,
if I find the world so bitter
when I am but twenty-five?

One God, one law, one element,
And one far-off divine event,
To which the whole creation moves.

The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.

It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.

The vow that binds too quickly snaps itself.

A life that moves to gracious ends
Thro' troops of unrecording friends,
A deedful life, a silent voice.

I am a part of all whom I have met.

Time [is] flowing in the middle of the night.

Food over flame burns, food over heat cooks

For the unquiet heart and brain,
A use in measured language lies.

Doom very evenly! Do not doom one doom to the rich; another to the poor! Nor doom one doom to your friend; another to your foe!

For man is man and master of his fate.

When the Sun Clearest shineth Serenest in the heaven, Quickly are obscured All over the earth Other stars.

All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things.

Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point.

I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned.

I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.

O hard, when love and duty clash!