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Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.
A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.
Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of... →
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Neutral men are the devil's allies.
Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.
Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.
At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because... →
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.