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He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

if you do not know, reader, what a Fisher Hobbs is, you know nothing about pigs, and deserve no bacon for breakfast.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Life is too short for mean anxieties.

Nothing is so infectious as example.

So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.

Nature's deepest laws, her own true laws, are her invisible ones.

The world is God's world, after all.

Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.

Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.

Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.

For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.

Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.

I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.

Toil is the true knight's pastime.

If you do anything above party, the true hearted ones of all parties sympathize with you.

Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand.

[The] great fairy Science, who is likely to be queen of all the fairies for many a year to come, can only do you good, and never do you harm ...

There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee!

I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being.

Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.

Every duty that is bidden to wait comes back with seven fresh duties at its back.

What I want is, not to possess religion, but to have a religion that shall possess me.

Oh England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high,
But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I

I go at what I have to do as if there were nothing else in the world for me to do.

Men must work, and women must weep.

Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

Give me something huge to fight, - and I should enjoy that - but why make me sweep the dust?

And what was the song which she sang? Ah, my little man, I am too old to sing that song, and you too young to understand it.

Do noble things, not dream them all day long.

Do what thou dost as if the earth were heaven, and thy last day the day of judgment.

A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.

It is not darkness you are going to, for God is Light. It is not lonely, for Christ is with you. It is not unknown country, for Christ is there.

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand - nature; and do what a little child could do - love.

Love can make us fiends as well as angels.

In the light of fuller day,
Of purer science, holier laws.

I believe not only in "special providences," but in the whole universe as one infinite complexity of "special providences.

The loveliest fairy in the world; and her name is Mrs Do as you would bed one by.

There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.

This is the feeling that gives a man true courage-the feeling that he has a work to do at all costs; the sense of duty.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

All but God is changing day by day.

Music has been called the speech of the angels; I will go farther and call it the speech of God Himself.

The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.

Tis the hard grey weather Breeds hard English men.

And now I'm old and going
I'm sure I can't tell where;
One comfort is, this world's so hard, I can't be worse off there

All the butterflies and cockyolybirds would fly past me.

Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.

Study nature as the countenance of God.

For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.

Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh.

How long would it take a school-inspector of average activity to tumble head over heels from London toYork?

It's all in the day's work, as the huntsman said when the lion ate him.

Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.

Three fishers went sailing away to the west,/ Away to the west as the sun went down.

Wherever is love and loyalty, great purposes and lofty souls, even though in a hovel or a mine, there is fairyland.

Oh, don't hurt me!" cried Tom. "I only want to look at you; you are so handsome.

Beauty is God's handwriting. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair day, every fair flower.

Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.

Duty
the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God.

A garden, sir, wherein all rainbows and flowers were heaped together.

Love is sentimental measles.

Are gods more ruthless than mortals? Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them?

Those clouds are angels' robes.