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A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.

Ah! soul of mine! Ah! soul of mine! Thy sluggish senses are but bars That stand between thee and the stars, And shut thee from the world divine.

Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone.

A woman in love is a very poor judge of character.

Humanity is constitutionally lazy.

Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.

He that cannot paint must grind the colors.

Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.

The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames.

I softly sink into the bath of sleep: With eyelids shut, I see around me close The mottled, violet vapors of the deep, That wraps me in repose.

There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.

Wealth is the least trustworthy of anchors.

God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling.

He never said it would be easy, He just said He'd go with me.

Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.

The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.

I have learned that to do one's next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing.

Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.

Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.

Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.

If you want learning, you must work for it.

If have got my spindle and my distaff ready
my pen and mind
never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.

A man who in the struggles of life has no home to retire to, in fact or in memory, is without life's best rewards and life's best defences.

It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law.

All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery.

God give us men. The time demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands.

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect.

Posts of honor are evermore posts of danger and of care.

Of all the scamps society knows, the traditional good fellow is the most despicable.

Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic.

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.

Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.

Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.

The man who loves home best, and loves it most unselfishly, loves his country best.

If we will measure other people's corn in our own bushel, let us first take it to the Divine standard, and have it sealed.

Geology gives us a key to the patience of God.

Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.

Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other.

Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.

Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul.

It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny.

Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.

Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.

A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.

A noble deed is a step towards heaven.

It is better to be a self-made man,
filled up according to God's original pattern,
than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern.

Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.

No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of a nation are the bulwarks of personal and national safety and thrift.

The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.

Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.

The secret of being loved is in being lovely; and the secret of being lovely is in being unselfish.

It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.

There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.

The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.

Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.

There are no twin souls in God's universe.

That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.

Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.

Life always take on the character of its motive.

Wants keep pace with wealth always.

Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.

There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.

The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.

We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.

A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman's eyes; for God himself sits behind them.

Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.

Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.

The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.

Play may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but is has as legitimate a place as prayer.

No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.

There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.

Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.

There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance.

A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.

We work and that is godlike.

Music is a thing of the soul-a roselipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea-a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.

It is the life in literature that acts upon life.