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Wisdom Of The Ages Quotes

It is a descending stream of pure activity, which is the dynamic force of the universe

Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature
Action is eloquence

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious

Everything is energy in motion

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become? The doer of good becomes good

The doer of evil becomes evil

One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action
One, who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men

The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action

One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary

The deed is everything, the glory is naught

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought
Action without study is fatal

Study without action is futile

This universe is a trinity and this is made of name, form, and action

The source of all actions is the body, for it is by the body that all actions are done

The body is behind all actions, even as the Eternal is behind the body

Knowledge, the object of knowledge, and the knower are the three factors, which motivate action; the senses, the work, and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire
Our actions are like the termination's of verses, which we rhyme as we please

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning
Action hangs, as it were, "dissolved" in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself there from

The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind ofaction you will get from him

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action

The great end of life is not knowledge but action
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect

According to real, exact knowledge, one force, or two forces, can never produce a phenomenon
The presence of a third force is necessary, for it is only with the help of a third force that the first two can produce what may be called a phenomenon, no matter in what sphere
Actions are the seed of Fate Deeds grow into Destiny
To talk goodness is not good..
Only to do it is
To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds
A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love
Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world
A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature
Well done is better than well said
Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory
It is well to think well; it is divine to act well
Action is greater than writing
A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author
There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the greater of these is the doing
But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Uncomsumed by moth or rust
Active natures are rarely melancholy
Activity and sadness are incompatible
Heaven never helps the men who will not act
Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has colour but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not
Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward
We should often be ashamed of our very best actions, if the world only saw the motives which caused them
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world
He who considers too much will perform little
When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone
Mark this well, ye proud men of action! ye are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought
We have only to change the point of viewand the greatest action looks mean
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all
One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal
The superior man perseveres long in his course, adapts to the times, but remains firm in his direction and correct in his goals
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action
Do not do what is already done
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue
What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might
To do an evil act is base
To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough.But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them
Be great in act, as you have been in thought
Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard but search will find it out
The shortest answer is doing
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations
Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so
Allaction is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sunand moon
Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice
This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in
Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, - act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will
Our only true course is to let the motive for action be in the action itself, never in its reward; not to be incited by the hope of the result, nor yet indulge a propensity for inertness
It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation
Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense
When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the earth, his spirit into space, the hairs of his head into plants, and his blood and semen are placed in water, what then becomes of this person? What remains is action
It's quality becomes fate
Verily, one becomes good by good action, bad by bad action
That deed is not well done of which a man must repent, and the reward of which he receives crying and with a tearful face
No, that deed is well done of which a man does not repent, and the reward of which he receives gladly and cheerfully
A wise man guides his own course of action; The fool follows another's direction, When an old dog barks, the others run, And this for no reason at all
For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds
And future deeds crowded round us as the countless stars in the night
Each morning sees some task begun, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose
Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream
Hatred is inveterate anger
Anger is momentary madness
Hatreds are the cinders of affection
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.Hatred is self-punishment
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind
He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly
Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance
For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love - this is an old rule
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing
If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous
Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame
I was angry with my friend; I told my wrath, my wrath did end
I was angry with my foe; I told it not, my wrath did grow
Most men know what they hate, few know what they love
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves
Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not easy.Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead
Like fragile ice anger passes away in time
Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance
Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice
That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns
We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter
Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is partof yourself
What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us
He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reinsI never work better than when I am inspired by anger; for when I am angry, I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understandingsharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure
A good indignation brings out all one's powers
Anger is a great force
If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life
As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him
There is such malice in men as to rejoice in misfortunes and from another's woes to draw delight.An angry man is again angry with himselfwhen he returns to reason
There is no medicine to cure hatred
Malice drinks one half of its own poison
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it
The hatred of relatives is the most violent
He whose anger causes no fear, Who can confer no benefit when pleased, Who can neither destroy nor subjugate, What good is such a man's anger? How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it
When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate
Hatred is something peculiar
You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated
The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man...it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture
We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority
Indulge not thyself in the passion of Anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentmentare cherished in the mind
Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten
When anger rises, think of the consequences
Take care that no one hates you justly
The greatest remedy for anger is delay
Oppose not rage while rage is in its force, but give it way a while and let it waste
Beware of him that is slow to anger; anger, when it is long in coming, is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept
Abused patience turns to fury
Act nothing in a furious passion
It's putting to sea in a storm
Think when you are enraged at any one, what would probably become your sentiments should he die during the dispute
When angry, count ten before you speak, if very angry, a hundred
To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better
If you have written a clever and conclusive, but scathing letter, keep it back till the next day, and it will very often never go at all
Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke
When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them; attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger.Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes
But if you quell your own anger, Your real enemy will be slain
In rage deaf as the sea; hasty as fire
The brain may devise laws for the blood;but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree: such a hare is madness the youth, to skip over the meshes of good counsel, the cripple
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor Hell a fury like a woman scorned
Are you angry that others disappoint you? Remember you cannot depend on yourself
Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls
When one God dwells in all living beings, then why do you hate others? Why do you frown at others? Why do you becomeindignant towards others? Why do you use harsh words? Why do you try to rule and domineer over others? Why do you exploit folly? Is this not sheer ignorance? Get wisdom andrest in peace
Beauty - the adjustment of all parts proportionately so thatone cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities
Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us
The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom
Beauty is the promise of happiness
Beauty is truth, truth beauty
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite
Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue
Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety
When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness
When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil
Therefore: Being and non-being produce each other
The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty
Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness
Beauty is the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder
Beauty is the wisdom of women
Wisdom is the beauty of men
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love;there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion
Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship
That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful
Variety of uniformities makes complete beauty
There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever
Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms
This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation
Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart
The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary
We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has not superfluous parts; which exactly answers its ends
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul
Beauty is not caused, - it is; Chase it and it ceases, Chase it not and it abides..
When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist
What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference
Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power
Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight, His changing cheek, his sinking heart confess, The might - the majesty of Loveliness? A thing of beauty is a joy forever, Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness
A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts
The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword
Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius,as it needs no explanation
It is of the great facts in theworld like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny
Nothing is beautiful from every point of view
Rare is the union of beauty and purity
Beauty - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook
Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; A shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; A flower that dies when first it 'gins to bud; A brittle glass that's broken presently; A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour
Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour; Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath closed Helen's eye
Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it burn thee
If thou like it, it deceives thee; if thou love it, it disturbs thee; if thou hunt after it, it destroys thee.If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory
It is the wise man's bonfire, and the fool's furnace
In beauty, faults conspicuous grow; The smallest speck is seen in snow
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul
Beauty and folly are old companions
Beauty and sadness always go together
Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy
What a strange illusion it is to supposethat beauty is goodness
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days? Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time
Trust not too much to an enchanting face
Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul
There's beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes can trace it 'midst familiar things, and through their lowly guise
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance
Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty
There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.When the candles are out all women are fair
O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars
There's no use being young without being beautiful, and no use being beautiful without being young
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all
Her air, her manners, all who saw admired; Courteous though coy, and gentle though retired; The joy of youth and health her eyes displayed, And ease of heart her every look conveyed
Not more the rose, the queen of flowers,Outblushes all the bloom of bower, Than she unrivall'd grace discloses; The sweetest rose, where all are roses
She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and in her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies
Loveliest of lovely things are they On earth, that soonest pass away
The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond the sculptured flower
She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me: Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light
Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven
Everything changes, nothing remains without change
All things change, nothing perishes
In all things there is a law of cycles
We must all obey the great law of change
It is the most powerful law of nature
We are negative in our relationships with that which is of a higher potential than we are; and we are positive in our relationships with that which has a lower potential
This is a relationship which is in a perpetual state of flux, andwhich varies at every separate point at which we make our innumerable contracts with our environment
There is nothing permanent except change
The seen is the changing, the unseen is the unchanging
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay
The misery which follows pleasure Is the pleasure which follows misery
The pleasure and misery of mankind Revolve like a wheel
The end of all motion is its beginning; for it terminates at no other end save its own beginning from which it begins to be moved and to which it tends ever to return, in order to cease and rest in it
Still ending, and beginning still
In this world of change, nothing which comes stays, and nothing which goes is lost
Change is inevitable...Change is constant
The appearance and disappearance of the Universe are pictured as an outbreathing and inbreathing of "the Great Breath," which is eternal, and which, being Motion, is one of the three aspects of the Absolute - Abstract Space and Duration being the other two
The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions
The universe is moved by a power which cycles endlessly fromday to day
Such greatness endures for all time
As in heaven, so on earth.As when rivers flowing towards the ocean find there final peace, their name and form disappear, and people speak only of the ocean, even so the different forms of the seer of allflows towards the Spirit and find there final peace, their name and form disappear and people speak only of Spirit
At the dawning of that day all objects in manifestation stream forth from the Unmanifest, and when evening falls they are dissolved into It again
The same multitude of beings, which have lived on earth so often, all are dissolved as the night of the universe approaches, to issue forth anew when morning breaks
Thus is it ordained
In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate
Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.It is not strange that even our loves should change with our fortunes
There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world
The world goes up and the world goes down, And the sunshine follows the rain; And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown Can never come over again
All things must change to something new,to something strange
It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same
A man is never the same for long
He is continually changing
He seldom remains the same even for half an hour
To change and change for the better are two different thingsThe way of the Creative works through change and trans- formation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres
A rolling stone can gather no moss
Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange
To-day is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our Works and Thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if Memory have its force and worth, so also has Hope
The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often
When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came
The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought
The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided
The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts
Keep what you have; the known evil is best
He despises what he sought; and he seeks that which he lately threw away
Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils
Then rose the seed of Chaos, and of Night, To blot out order and extinguish light
What I possess I would gladly retain
Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits
They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change
Humanity is moving in a circle
In one century it destroys everything it creates in another, and the progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more important for it
Change is certain
Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return
Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim
Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable
No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his mind
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things whichare, and to make new things like them
Perfection is immutable
But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them
Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep
Slumber not in the tents of your fathers
The world is advancing
To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders
Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other
Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master
Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started
So many great nobles, things, administrations, So many high chieftains, so many brave nations, So many proud princes, and power so splendid, In a moment, a twinkling, all utterly ended
The ever-whirling wheele Of Change, to which all mortal things doth sway
See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again; All forms that perish other forms supply; By turns we catch the vital breath and die
Ships, wealth, general confidence,- All were his; He counted them at break of day, And when the sun set! where were they
Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress
But the nearer the dawn the darker the night, And by going wrong all things come right; Things have been mended that were worse,And the worse, the nearer they are to mend
That rivers flow into the sea Is loss and waste, the foolish say, Nor know that back they find their way Unseen, to where they want to be
Time fleeth on, Youth soon is gone, Naught earthly may abide; Life seemeth fast, But may not last - It runs as runs the tide
The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything
Character is destiny
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them
Character is simply habit long continued
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do
Character is a perfectly educated will
Character is that which can do without success
Character - a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means
Character is not cut in marble; it is not something solid and unalterable
It is something living and changing..
Honour is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing puton by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it
A man should endeavor to be as pliant as a reed, yet as hard as cedar-wood
To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought, has the greatest bearing on excellence of character
An excellent man, like precious metal, Is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, Is always varying, upwards and downwards
He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon
Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence
A mans' character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them
Man consists of two parts: essence and personality
Essence in man is what is his own
Personality in man is what is "not his own." "Not his own" means what has come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory and in thesensations, all words and movements that have been learned, all feelings created by imitation
Good character is like a rubber ball - Thrown down hard - it bounces right back
Good reputation is like a crystal ball - Thrown for gain - shattered and cracked
Practice no vice because it's trivial...Neglect no virtue because it's so
As the shadow waiteth on the substance, even so true honour attendeth upon goodness
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior
Not to be cheered by praise, Not to be grieved by blame, But to know thoroughtly one's own virtues or powers Are the characteristics of an excellent man
Every one is the son of his own works
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life
True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn
The discipline of desire is the background of character
Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never re-enter it once we are on the outside
It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of
Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word
The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions
Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.A man never shows his own character so plainly as by his manner of portraying another's
Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, form our true honor
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out
Characters do not change
- Opinions alter, but characters are only developed
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow
The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing
Reputation is only a...candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit
Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it
Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time
If you create an act, you create a habit
If you create a habit, you create a character
If you create a character, you create a destiny
Good character is not formed in a week or a month
It is created little by little, day by day
Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character
Integrity has no need of rules
As a plain garment best adorneth a beautiful woman, so a decent behaviour is the best ornament of inner wisdom
The best man in his dwelling loves the earth
In his heart, he loves what is profound
In his associations, he loves humanity
In his words, he loves faithfulness
In government, he loves order
In handling affairs, he loves competence
In his activities, he loves timeliness
It is because he does not compete that he is without reproach
To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude
He who knows these three things knows how to cultivate his own character
What is honorable is also safest
The highest of characters, in my estimation, is as ready to pardon the moral errors of mankind, as if he were every day guilty of some himself; and at the same time as cautious of committing a fault as if he never forgave one
The purest treasure mortal time afford Is spotless reputation; that away, Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is, in reality, so much power
Character is higher than intellect
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions
Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking
To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless
No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance
The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those which we affect to have
Honor is but an empty bubble
Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them, are for the greater part ignorant of both the character they leave and of the character they assume
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.Honor is simply the morality of superior men
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee
Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them
First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou inflexible in the path of them
Be upright in thy whole life; be content in all its changes;so shalt thou make thy profit out of all occurrences; so shall everything that happeneth unto thee be the source of praise
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby
The stages of the Noble Path are: Right View, Right Thought, Right Speech, Right Behavior, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration
Do not appease thy fellow in his hour of anger; do not comfort him while the dead is still laid out before him; do not question him in the hour of his vow; and do not strive to see him in his hour of misfortune
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear
Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire
This is sufficient
The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman
In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought
Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others
Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct
When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness
When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy
Honour and shame from no condition rise;Act well your part, there all the honour lies
Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him
Human improvement is from within outward
By constant self-discipline and self-control you can developgreatness of character
Adhere To - Faith, Unity, Sacrifice
Avoid - Back-biting, Falsehood and Crookedness
Admire - Frankness, Honesty and Large-heartedness
Control - Tongue, Temper and Tossing of the mind
Cultivate - Cosmic Love, Forgiveness and Patience
Hate - Lust, Anger and Pride
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself
He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.If you stand straight Do not fear a crooked shadow
As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes
They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons
But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved
In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou art such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow; Hast so much wit, and mirth, and spleen about thee, That there's no living with thee, or without thee
O reputation! dearer far than life, Thou precious balsam, lovely, sweet of smell, Whose cordial drops once spilt by some rash hand, Not all the owner's care, nor the repenting toil Of the rude spiller, ever can collect To its first purity and native sweetness
O, he sits high in all the people's hearts; And that which would appear offence in us, His countenance, like richest alchemy, Will change to virtue and to worthiness.Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child
Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free; Patient of toil; serene amidst alarms; Inflexible in faith; invincible in arms.I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements and under all circumstances, to be open and generous, promoting in thelong run even the interests of both
The reason firm, the temperate will
Endurance, forsight, strength and skill.The louder he talked of his honor the faster we counted our spoons
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause
True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it
Self-truth is the essence of heroism
Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.Courage is fear holding on a minute longer
The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion
He who is brave in daring will be killed
He who is brave in not daring will live.Of these two, one is advantageous and one is harmful
Who knows why Heaven dislikes what it dislikes? Even the sage considers it a difficult question..
There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life
No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good Courage leads to heaven; fear, to death.Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess, of courage
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources
In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave
The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet
The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire- the light of daring burning in the heart
The more one dares, the more he shall obtain
The more he fears, the more that light shall pale - and that alone can guide
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it
Say not that honour is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self
A man of courage is also full of faith
Fortune can take away riches, but not courage
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger
Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have
We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger
Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows
It is in great dangers that we see great courage
Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter
One man with courage makes a majority
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests
A decent boldness ever meets with friends
Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body
Fortune and love favor the brave
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage
True courage is cool and calm
The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the mostserene and free
The brave love mercy, and delight to save
Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color
Heroism - the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men
There is always safety in valor
You will never do anything in this world without courage
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle
The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime
Take away ambitions and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?Valor hath its bounds, as well as other virtues, which once transgressed, the next step is into the territories of vice,so that, by having too large a proportion of this heroic virtue...may unawares run into temerity, obstinacy, and folly
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.Valor employed in an ill quarrel, turns to cowardice; and virtue then puts on foul vice's vizor
Valor that parleys is near yielding
The more wit the less courage
No man is a hero to his valet
Who combats bravely is not therefore brave: He dreads a deathbed like the meanest slave
Personal courage is really a very subordinate virtue..
in which we are surpassed by the lower animals
It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything
Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves, either in imagination or practice
Never ask the gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long
The burden which is well borne becomes light
No one reaches a high position without daring
The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone
Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one
Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die
Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer
Nurture your minds with great thoughts, to believe in the heroic makes heroes
Write on your doors the saying wise and old
"Be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold; Be not too bold!" Yet better the excessThan the defect; better the more than less..
As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not
He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet
In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart sustaineth him; and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out
O friends, be men; so act that none may feel ashamed to meet the eyes of other men
Think each one of his children and his wife, his home, his parents, living yet or dead
For them, the absent ones, I supplicate, and bid you rally here, and scorn to fly
And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared
Valour, glory, firmness, skill, generosity, steadiness in battle and ability to rule - these constitute the duty of a soldier
They flow from his own nature.Courage in danger is half the battle
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality
That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion
He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster
Tender handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains
A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who, by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward
The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers
No man is a hero to his valet
This is not because the herois no hero, but because the valet is a valet
The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails
One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake
In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife
Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share;Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare
A man not perfect, but of heart So high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part Of earth's eternal heritage
Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul
Envy is the adversary of the fortunate
From covetousness anger proceeds; from covetousness lust is born; from covetousness come delusion and perdition
Covetousness is the cause of sin
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority; envy our uneasiness under it
Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but greedy of honor and feeding on selfishness
Jealousy - magnifier of trifles
Envy is littleness of soul
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live
It is asking others to live as one wishes to live
The things which belong to others please us more, and that which is ours, is more pleasing to others
The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth
True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves
In plain truth, it is not want, but rather abundance, that creates avarice
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies
Envy will merit, as its shade pursue, but like a shadow, proves the substance true
Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the heart of man; for the goods of this present world are so vile and low thatthey are beneath it; and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it.The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing
Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion
There is no calamity greater than lavish desires
There is no greater guilt than discontentment
And there is no greater disaster than greed
He who is contented with contentment is always contented
Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense
All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train
Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same way if the roots of craving are not wholly uprooted sorrows will come again and again
Envy, like flame, soars upwards
Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks
Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides
Lust of power is the most flagrant of all passions
He that is jealous is not in love
Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy
Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness
Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock
In jealousy there is more self-love than love
Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things
The envious will die, but envy never
The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them
Nature is content with little; grace with less; but lust with nothing
If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great thingsthat they possess, there would not be much to envy in the world
Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition
A man is called selfish, not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting the neighbor's
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets
Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness
Jealousy is, in some sort, rational and just; it aims at the preservation of a good which belongs, or which we think belongs, to us; whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot endure, even in idea, the good of others
Misers are very kind people: they amass wealth for those who wish their death
Fools may our scorn, not envy raise, for envy is a kind of praise
Envy, to which the ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learned or brave
Avarice, the spur of industry
Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of the love of justice in it
We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune
It is astonishing how well men wear when they think of no one but themselves
Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from the first dawn to the present day..
Selfishness is the dynamo of our economic system...which mayrange from mere petty greed to admirable types of self- expression
An immoderate desire of riches is a poison lodged in the mind
It contaminates and destroys everything that was good in it
It is no sooner rooted there, than all virtue, all honesty, all natural affection, fly before the face of it
The heart of the envious is gall and bitterness; his tongue spitteth venom; the success of his neighbour breaketh his rest
He sitteth in his cell repining; and the good that happeneth to another, is to him an evil
Hatred and malice feed upon his heart, and there is no rest in him
Can a man carry fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned? Or can one walk upon hot coals and his feet not be scorched? So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; none who touches her will go unpunished
An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors
Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition, and theperpetual tormentor of virtue
Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh, and drieth up the marrow of the bones
As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy
Those who are envious and mischievous, who are the lowest among men, are cast by Me into the ocean of material existence, into various demoniac species of life
The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell
Avarice, in old age, is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end?The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor
The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains
The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not
Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and, finally, a mortal bane to all the body
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them; for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes
When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad
As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man
Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy
Though an avaricious man possesses wealth, An envious man possesses another's goods, And an ill-minded man possesses his learning- None of these can produce lasting pleasure
Envy is like a fly that passes all a body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores
Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse: envy alone wants both
The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea
Avarice is insatiable and is always pushing on for more
Covetousness, by a greediness of getting more, deprives itself of the true end of getting; it loses the enjoyment of what it had got
Avarice is always poor, but poor by her own fault
The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit
No man is more cheated than the selfish man
Covetousness has for its mother unlawful desire, for its daughter injustice, and for its friend violence
Attribute not the good actions of another to bad causes: thou canst not know his heart; but the world will know by this that thine is full of envy
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor is manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor's
Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless to thee
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind
The demon of worldly desires is always seeking chances to deceive the mind
If a viper lives in your room and you wish to have a peaceful sleep, you must first chase it out
Refrain from covetousness, and thy estate shall prosper
As fire is covered by smoke, as a mirror is covered by dust,or as an embryo is covered by the womb, similarly the livingentity is covered by different degrees of lust which veils real knowledge and is never satisfied
Therefore regulate the senses in the beginning and slay this destroyer of knowledge and self-realization
If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxury
Expel avarice, the mother of all wickedness, who, always thirsty for more, opens wide her jaws for gold
An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity
The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well
Envy not greatness: for thou makest thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater
All jealousy must be strangled in its birth, or time will soon make it strong enough to overcome the truth
Do not believe that lust can ever be killed out if gratifiedor satiated, for this is an abomination inspired by illusion
It is by feeding vice that it expands and waxes strong, like to the worm that fattens on the blossom's heart
Selfishness is the greatest sin
It constrains the heart
It separates man from man
It makes him greedy
It is the root of all evils and sufferings
Destroy selfishness through selfless service, charity, generosity and love
He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes
Surely, those who swallow the property of the orphans unjustly, swallow nothing but fire into their bellies, and they shall soon enter into the flaming fire
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief,That thou her maid art far more fair than she: Be not her maid, since she is envious
Hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill; Yet still he sighs, for hoards are wanting still
O, Jealousy, thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue of my fresh cheek to haggard sallowness, and drinks my spirit up
Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured and unsung
Envy is the defromed and distorted offspring of egotism; and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent, we cannot wonder at the perversity and waywardness of the child
Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it
...The last vibration of the seventh eternity thrills through infinitude
The mother swells, expanding from within without, like the bud of the lotus
The vibration sweeps along, touching with its swift wing the whole universe and the germ that dwelleth in dark- ness: the darkness that breathes over the slumbering watersof life..
Darkness radiates light, and light drops one solitary ray into the mother-deep
The ray shoots through the virgin egg
The ray causes the eternal egg to thrill, and drop the non-eternal germ, which condenses into the world-egg..
These are the ten spheres of existence out of nothing
From the spirit of the living God emanated air, from the air, water, from the water, fire or ether, from the ether, the height and the depth, the East and West, the North and South
In the beginning God created the Heaven and the earth
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep
And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters
And God said, Let there be light, and there was light
This is the truth: As from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again
As a spider emits and draws in its thread, As plants arise on the earth, As the hairs of the head and body from a living person, So from The Eternal arises everything here
Before God manifested Himself, when all things were still hidden in Him...He began by forming an imperceptible point; that was His own thought
With this thought He then began to construct a mysterious and holy form...the Universe
Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere
Nature is but a name for an effect whose cause is God
Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish
What is art? Nature concentrated
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same
For Art is Nature made by man To Man the interpreter of God
Father-Mother spin a web whose upper end is fastened to spirit - the light of the one darkness - and the lower one to its shadowy end, matter; and this web is the universe spun out of the two substances made in one..
The decade of existence out of nothing has its end linked to its beginning and its beginning linked to its end, just as the flame is wedded to the live coal; because the Lord is one and there is not a second one, and before one what wilt thou count? In wisdom and understanding we have the archetypal Positive and Negative, the primordial Maleness and Femaleness, established while "countenance beheld not countenance" and manifestation was incipient
It is from these primary Pairsof Opposites that the Pillars of the Universe spring, between which is woven the web of Manifestation
The Creative knows the great beginnings.The Receptive completes the finished things
The Creative, in a state of rest, is one, and in a state of motion it is straight;therefore it creates that which is great
The Receptive is closed in a state of rest, and in a state of motion it opens; therefore it creates that which is vast.The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; The Named is the mother of all things
Therefore let there always be non-being so we may see their subtlety, And let there always be being so we may see their outcome
The two are the same, But after they are produced, they have different names
They both may be called deep and profound
Deeper and more profound, The door of all subtleties! There are two aspects in Nature: the perishable and the imperishable
All life in this world belongs to the former,the unchanging element belongs to the latter
Emanation is the Resulting displayed from the Unresulting, the Finite from the Infinite, the Manifold and Composite from the Perfect Single and Simple, Potentiality from that which is Infinite Power and Act, the mobile from that which is perennially permanent; and therefore in a more imperfect and diminished mode than His Infinite Perfection is
Surely God causes the seed and the stone to sprout; He brings forth the living from the dead, and He is the bringer forth of the dead from the living
The point appeared in the circle, yet wasn't
Rather, it was the circle, traversed by the point
To one who has completed the circle, the point exists on the circumference.The whole world I said is His imagination, then I saw: His imagination is Himself
In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life
The soil, in return for her service, keeps the tree tied to her; the sky asks nothing and leaves it free
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.Art is a lie that makes us realize truth
...The eternal vital power builds them in the likeness of older worlds, placing them on the Imperishable Centres
How does he build them? He collects the fiery dust
He makes balls of fire, runs through them, and round them, infusing life thereinto, then sets them into motion; some one way, some the other way
They are cold, he makes them hot
They are dry, he makes them moist
They shine, he fans and cools them
Thus he acts from one twilight to the other, during Seven Eternities
The appearance of the ten spheres out of manifestation is like a flash of lightning, being without an end, His word is in them, when they go and return; they run by His order like a whirlwind and humble themselves before His throne
Polarity is the principle that runs through the whole of creation, and is, in fact, the basis of manifestation
Polarity really means the flowing of force from a sphere of high pressure to a sphere of low pressure; high and low being always relative terms
Every sphere of energy needs to receive the stimulus of an influx of energy at higher pressure, and to have an output into a sphere of lower pressure
The source of all energy is the Great Unmanifest,and it makes its own way down the levels, changing its form from one to the other, till it is finally "earthed" in matter
The pure impulse of dynamic creation is formless; and being formless, the creation it gives rise to can assume any and every form
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven
The cosmos comes forth from The Eternal, and moves In Him
With His power it reverberates,Like thunder crashing in the sky
Those who Realize Him pass beyond the sway of death
The spirit of the valley never dies
It is called the subtle and profound female
The gate of the subtle and profound female Is the root of Heaven and Earth
It is continuous, and seems to be always existing
Use it and you will never wear it out
The Eternal generates the One
The One generates the Two
The Two generates the Three
The Three generates all things
All things have darkness at their back and strive towards the light, and the flowing power gives them harmony
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks
A picture is a poem without words
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance
Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible
The perfection of art is to conceal art.Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another
God has made all things out of nothing: because...even though the world has been made of some material, that very same material has been made out of nothing
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild
Nature never breaks her own laws
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection
When one is painting one does not think.We call that against nature which cometh against custom
But there is nothing, whatsoever it be, that is not according to nature.Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature,they being both servants of his providence: art is the perfection of nature; were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos; nature hath made one world, and art another
In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of God
Nature imitates herself
A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit
Everything is created and conducted by the same Master: the root, the branch, the fruits - the principles, the consequences
The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance theillusion of a higher reality
The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts
- Illusion on a ground of truth, that is the secret of the fine arts
The ideal should never touch the real; When nature conquers, Art must then give way
Light is the first of painters
There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful
Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect
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a first cause, eternal, all-wise, almighty and holy, is the origin and the centre of the whole universe, from whom gradually all beings emanated
Thought, speech and action are an inseparable unity in the divine being
The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form
Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art
All art does but consist in the removal of surplusage
Art is not a thing; it is a way
A work of art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament
The process of creation never stops, although, on a plane- tary scale, growth proceeds so slowly that if we reckon it in our time planetary conditions can be regarded as permanent for us
What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself
Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes it visible
THE CREATIVE works sublime success, Furthering through perseverance
Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts: the sight ofthe deep-blue sky, and the clustering stars above, seem to impart a quiet in the mind
Nature goes on her way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order
Art is the right hand of Nature
The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men
Art is more godlike than science
Science discovers; art creates
Nature pleases, attracts, delights, merely because it is nature
We recognize in it an Infinite Power
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her
For what has made the sage or poet writeBut the fair paradise of Nature's light.Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to ourdreams and cherishes our fancies
Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature
She shows us only surfaces, but she is million fathoms deep
Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen
Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elementsin human happiness
It trains the mind through the eye, andthe eye through the mind
As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.Art comes to you posing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass
Art is the great stimulus to life
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization
All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature
Nature abhors annihilation
Nature too unkind; That made no medicine for a troubled mind! Ah! would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way, from the eye, through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost! Art is difficult, transient is her reward
Nature, red in tooth and claw
Nature has no principles
She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected
Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable
There is nothing but art
Art is living
To attempt to give an object of art life by dwelling on its historical, cultural, or archaeological association is senseless
In order for a creation to be possible there must first be acontraction, a concentration of all energies at a center
Then, an expansion must occur; the gathered energies must be sent forth in concentrated form as a ray or beam of energy
Let us permit nature to have her way; she understands her business better than we do
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.And hark! how blithe the thristle sings! He, too, is no mean preacher: Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent
Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing
Help Nature and work on with her; and Nature will regard thee as one of her creators and make obeisance
And she will open wide before thee the portals of her secret chambers, lay bare before thy gaze the treasures hidden in the depths of her pure virgin bosom
Before the visible universe was formed its mold was cast
This mold was called the Archetype, and the Archetype was inthe Supreme Mind long before the process of creation began
Beholding the Archetypes, the Supreme Mind become enamored with Its own thought; so, taking the Word as a mighty hammer, It gouged out caverns in primordial space and cast the form of the spheres in the Archetypical mold, at the same time sowing in the newly fashioned bodies the seeds of living things
The darkness below, receiving the hammer of the Word, was fashioned into an orderly universe
Ten are the numbers out of nothing, and not the number nine,ten and not eleven
Comprehend this great wisdom, under- stand this knowledge, inquire into it and ponder on it, render it evident and lead the Creator back to His throne again
Casteth he his eye towards the clouds, findeth he not the heavens full of his wonders? looketh he down to the earth, doth not the worm proclaim "Less than omnipotence could not have formed me!"In the beginning the Golden Embryo arose
Once he was born, he was the one lord of creation
He held in place the earthand this sky
He who gives life, who gives strength, whose command all the gods, his own, obey; his shadow is immortal-ity - and death
The Receptive is all-potential, but inert
The Creative is pure energy, limitless and tireless, but incapable of doing anything except radiate off into space if left to its own devices
But when the Creative acts upon the Receptive, itsenergy is gathered up and set to work
When the Receptive receives the impulse of the Creative, all her latent capacities are energised
From the ONE LIFE formless and Uncreate, proceeds the Universe of lives
First was manifested from the Deep (Chaos) cold luminous fire (gaseous light?) which formed the curds in Space
(Irresolvable nebulae, perhaps?) ...These fought, and a great heat was developed by the encountering and collision, which produced rotation
Then came the first manifested MATERIAL..
All beings return at the close of every cosmic cycle into the realm of Nature, which is a part of Me, and at the beginning of the next I send them forth again
With the help of Nature, again and again I pour forth the whole multitude of beings, whether they will or no, for they are ruled by My Will
In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth
Man's rich with little, were his judgement true; Nature is frugal, and her wants are few;These few wants answer'd bring sincere delights; But fools create themselves new appetites
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God
Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.'Tis to create, and in creating live A being more intense, that we endow With form our fancy, gaining as we give The life we image
The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world
The counterfeit and counterpart Of Nature reproduced in art
Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child in whom we trace The features of the mother's face, Her aspect and her attitude
Once, when the days were ages, And the old Earth was young, The high gods and the sages From Nature's golden pages Her open secrets wrung
We take cunning for a sinister or crooked wisdom
Cunning...is but the low mimic of wisdom
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses
Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages
Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey
In the mind of the wicked there is one thing; in their discourse another; their conduct is another
In the heart, in the speech, and in the conduct of the magnanimous there is one and the same thing
Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason
It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding it out
Cunning to wisdom is as an ape to man
Half the truth is often a great lie
Falsehood is susceptible of an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves
The weak in courage is strong in cunning
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination
Truth invites it
Falsehood is cowardice, - truth is courage
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis butThe truth in masquerade
White lies are but the ushers to black ones
His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true
The cruelest lies are often told in silence
Truth is the safest lie
Thy secret is thy prisoner if thou keepest it; thou art its prisoner if thou divulgest it
If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty
When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish
When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love
When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants
A lie never lives to be old
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom
No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted
Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself
You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell
One crime is concealed by the commission of another
For whoever contemplates a crime is guilty of the deed
If one is plotting evil, He always uses pleasant words
When a hunter sees the game, He sings a sweet song to lure it
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselvesto be deceived
No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself
Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity
The fox puts off all with a jest
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things
Cunning leads to knavery
- It is but a step from one to theother, and that very slippery
- Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery
Cunning has effect from the credulity of others
It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fastly misled us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no timepieces so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right
Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader
There is no lie that many men will not believe; there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all
No one can disgrace us but ourselves
The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrew boast of it
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes
Shame greatly hurts or greatly helps mankind
Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit
A goodly apple rotten at the heart; O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well
Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver
If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt; if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry; if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius
Cunning is the natural and universal defense of the weak against the violence of the strong
Foxes are so cunningBecause they are not strong
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation
Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable
The heart of the hypocrite is hid in his breast; he masketh his words in the semblance of truth, while the business of his life is only to deceive
For he who speaks untruth withers like a tree to the roots
Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another
If people become accustomed to lying, they will uncon- sciously commit every possible wrong deed
Before they can act wickedly they must lie, and once they begin to lie they will act wickedly with unconcern
For one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death
Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead
Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men
To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a sabre; for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain
The gain of lying is, not to be trusted by any, nor to be believed when we speak the truth
Though those who are betrayed do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe
Where trust is greatest, there treason is in its most horrid shape
He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes; for he must invent twenty more to maintain that one
Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not wits enough to be honest
Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society
They trifle with the best parts of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations
Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it
Who is not sure of his memory should not attempt lying
We should do by our cunning as we do by our courage, always have it ready to defend ourselves, never to offend others
Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning
Be intent on his intentions
Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess the key to their motivesyou may at any moment be forced to take their chestnuts out of the fire to the damage of your own fingers
Trust not in him that seems a saint
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slightacquaintance and without any visible reason
I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequencesyou are to tell the truth
Do not talk about disgrace from a thing being known, when disgrace is, that the thing should exist
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face
Don't trust that conventional idea
Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it
O fool, fool! the pains which thou takest to hide what thou art, are far more than would make thee what thou wouldst seem; and the children of wisdom shall mock at thy cunning when, in the midst of security, thy disguise is stripped off, and the finger of derision shall point thee to scorn
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence
We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love
Is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin? It is the just decree of Heaven that a traitor never sees his danger till his ruin is at hand
Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead
Some have learnt many Tricks of sly Evasion, Instead of Truth they use Equivocation, And eke it out with mental Reservation, Which is to good Men an Abomination
Round numbers are always false
A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling, and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you
You have only to keep still and it will die of itself.O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! Oh, colder than the wind that freezes Founts, that but now in sunshine play'd, Is that congealing pang which seizes The trusting bosom, when betray'd
Mary, I believed thee true, And I was blest in thus believing; But now I mourn that ever I knew A girl so fair and so deceiving
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time
A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty
Spies are of no use nowadays
Their profession is over
The newspapers do their work instead
We (Communist Party) must be ready to employ trickery, deceit, law-breaking, withholding and concealing truth
We can and must write in the language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, scorn, and the like, toward those who disagree with us
Every man is his own chief enemy
Our enemies are our outward consciences.As soon as there is life there is danger
The space in a needle's eye is sufficient for two friends, but the whole world is scarcely big enough to hold two enemies
Perils commonly ask to be paid on pleasures
Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety
There is no person who is not dangerous for some one
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee
And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee
A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend
I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend
Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder
Biggest profits mean gravest risks
The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances
The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on
The weak man grows agitated
But the superior manstands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certaintyof final success, and bides his time until the onset of reassuring odds
Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril
When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal
If ignorant both of your enemy and of yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in peril
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises to give even his life- knowing that under certain conditions it is not worth while to live
There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns
Man is never watchful enough against dangers that threaten him every hour
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them
The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger
Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads
It is the enemy whom we do not suspect who is the most dangerous
There is no little enemy
A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you
Men of sense often learn from their enemies
It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war; and this lesson saves their children, their homes, and their properties
Some men are more beholden to their bitterest enemies than to friends who appear to be sweetness itself
The former frequently tell the truth, but the latter never
Danger, the spur of all great minds
Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies
Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers
Everything is sweetened by risk
All centuries are dangerous, it is the business of the future to be dangerous
It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization
But, on the whole, the great ages have been the unstable ages
Behold the turtle
He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out
The worst enemy is one that fears the gods
Even if the son of his enemy speaks sweetly, The wise man remains on guard
A poisonous leaf retains its potency, And can cause injury at any time
If you have no enemies, it is a sign fortune has forgot you.Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring
Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many
We each have some dominant defect, by which the enemy can grasp us
In some it is vanity, in others indolence, in most egotism
Let a cunning and evil spirit possess himselfof this, and you are lost
A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke
He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations
If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat
The world is always burning, burning with the fire of greed,anger and ignorance; one should flee from such dangers as soon as possible
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults
Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them
If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger
Whoever benefits his enemy With straightforward intention That man's enemies will soon Fold their hands in devotion
In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger benear at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid
O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies
Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger
In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm
Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased...An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak
Do not let the enemy see your spirit
Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it
He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck
Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half
Never run away from anything
Never! Man should observe the strictest self-restraint and reserve in dangerous times
In this way he incurs neither injury from antagonists with designs on pre-eminence nor obligations to others
There's nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck
It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently
It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger
You are dealing with a work full of dangerous hazard, and you are venturing upon fires overlaid with treacherous ashesSend danger from the east unto the west,So honor cross it from the north to south
O'er the ice the rapid skater flies, With sport above and death below, Where mischief lurks in gay disguise Thus lightly touch and quickly go
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is: not to take the risk
When once the risk has really been taken, then the greatest danger is to risk too much
The world is large when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide; But the world is small when your enemy is loose on the other side
For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return
Even as a caterpillar, when coming to an end of a blade of grass, reaches out to another blade of grass and draws itself over to it, in the same way the Soul, leaving the body and unwisdom behind, reaches out to another body and draws itself over to it
Then shalt dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it
That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity
Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted
Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell
The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal
Death is implicit in birth
There are two ways of passing from this world - one in light and one in darkness
When one passes in light, he does not come back; but when one passes in darkness, he returns
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired
And I still onward haste to my last night; Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; So every day we live, a day we die
One short sleep past, we wake eternally,And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die
Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good
Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening
For I say, this is death and the sole death, When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest
Living is death; dying is life
We are not what we appear to be
On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children; on this side captives, on that freemen..
Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free
Life is a dream walking Death is a going home
Involvement in a form is the beginning of the death of life
It is a straightening and a limiting; a binding and a constricting
Form checks life, thwarts it, and yet enables it to organize
Seen from the point of view of free-moving force, incarceration in a form is extinction.Form disciplines force with a merciless severity
Remember the men of old passed away, those of days to come will also pass away: a mortal ripens like corn and like corn is born again
No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil
Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being.Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river.But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living
Nobody dies prematurely who dies in misery
Death is sometimes a punishment, sometimes a gift; to many it has come as a favor
Strange - is it not? - that of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too
The fear of death is worse than death
The birds of the air die to sustain thee; the beasts of the field die to nourish thee; the fishes of the sea die to feed thee
Our stomachs are their common sepulcher
Good God! with how many deaths are our poor lives patched up! how full of death is the life of momentary man! Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eyeIt is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed byProvidence as an evil to mankind
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death
We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him
Man has the possibility of existence after death
But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing
A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own
This is thy present world, said the Flame to the Spark
Thou art myself, my image, and my shadow
I have clothed myself in thee, and thou art my vehicle to the day, "Be with us," when thou shalt re-become myself and others, thyself and me
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings
He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound
Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest
This day, which thou fearest as thy last, is the birthday of eternity
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life
Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations
Death is the cure for all diseases
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep
We shall rise refreshed in the morning
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time
That which is so universal as death must be a benefit
The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying
Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality
Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console
How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep
But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet Lessen like sound of friends' departing feet; And Death is beautiful as feet of friendComing with welcome at our journey's end
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death
There is no death! the stars go down To rise upon some other shore, And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, They shine for ever more
Death is delightful
Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light
The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves
Death is a condition of survival.That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can onlybe eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through deathinto eternal life
This is the meaning of Resurrection
The path of immortality is hard, and only a few find it
The rest await the Great Day when the wheels of the universeshall be stopped and the immortal sparks shall escape from the sheaths of substance
Woe unto those who wait, for they must return again, unconscious and unknowing, to the seed-ground of stars, and await a new beginning
O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of men
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me
Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, Where death's approach is seen so terrible! If some men died and others did not, death would indeed be a most mortifying evil
The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them
A dying man can do nothing easy
To neglect, at any time, preparation for death, is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age, is to sleep at an attack
Death is the tyrant of the imagination
His reign is in solitude and darkness, in tombs and prisons, over weak hearts and seething brains
He lives, without shape or sound, a phantasm, inaccessible to sight or touch, - a ghastly and terrible apprehension
Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death
There is no such thing as death
In nature nothing dies
From each sad remnant of decay Some forms of life arise
Labour not after riches first, and think thou afterwards wilt enjoy them
He who neglecteth the present moment, throweth away all that he hath
As the arrow passeth through the heart, while the warrior knew not that it was coming; so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it
Trust not your own powers till the day of your death
But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay
Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead
Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable
He who knows that this body is like froth, and has learnt that it is as unsubstantial as a mirage, will break the flower-pointed arrow of illusion, and never see the king of death
It is uncertain in what place death may await thee; therefore expect it in any place
Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything
Despise not death, but welcome it, for Nature wills it like all else
At the moment of death there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendour of the colourless light of Emptiness, and that will surround you on all sides.Terrified, you will flee from the radiance...Try to submergeyourself in that light, giving up all belief in a separate self, all attachment to your illusory ego
Recognize that the boundless Light of this true Reality is your own true self, and you shall be saved! Do not be frightened or bewildered by the luminous, brilliant, very sharp and clear light of supreme wisdom..
Be drawn to it...take refuge in it...Do not take pleasure inthe soft light...Do not be attracted to it or yearn for it
It is an obstacle blocking the path of liberation
If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately
She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it
Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, And death is but the sounder sleep
If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death
Life that breathes now lies still and yet moves fast, rush- ing but firmly fixed in the midst of the resting places
The life of the dead one wanders as his nature wills
The immortal comes from the same womb as the mortal
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, Advanced a stage or two upon that road Which you must travel in the steps they trod
Before long, alas! this body will lie on the earth, despised, without understanding, like a useless log
I have lived, and I have run the course which fortune allotted me; and now my shade shall descend illustrious to the grave
Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment
Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world
Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising
Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying? I died a mineral, and became a plant
I died a plant and rose an animal
I died an animal and I was man
Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark
This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew
The prince who kept the world in awe, The judge whose dictate fix'd the law; The rich, the poor, the great, the small, Are levelled; death confounds 'em all
As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death,The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength
Would you extend your narrow span, And make the most of life you can; Would you, when medicines cannot save, Descend with ease into the grave; Calmly retire, like evening light, And cheerful bid the world goodnight? Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way
All flesh is grass, and all its glory fades Like the fair flower dishevelled in the wind; Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream; The man we celebrate must find a tomb, And we that worship him, ignoble graves.Like the dew on the mountain, Like the foam on the river, Like the bubble on the fountain, Thou art gone, and for ever! First our pleasures die - and then Our hopes, and then our fears - and whenThese are dead, the debt is due, Dust claims dust - and we die too
The sweet calm sunshine of October, now Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mould The purple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough Drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold
To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late, And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods? When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men
Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality
Dying is a wild night and a new road
And I hear from the outgoing ship in the bay The song of the sailors in glee: So I think of the luminous footprints that bore The comfort o'er dark Galilee, And wait for the signal to go to the shore, To the ship that is waiting for me
Out of the chill and the shadow, Into the thrill and the shine; Out of the dearth and the famine, Into the fulness divine
Age carries all things away, even the mind
Old age is an incurable disease
All human things are subject to decay
Old age is an island surrounded by death
Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor
As we grow old we become both more foolish and more wise
We hope to grow old, yet we fear old age; that is, we are willing to live, and afraid to die
Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old
As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts
Heaven gives our days of failing strength Indemnifying fleetness And those of youth a seeming length Proportioned to their sweetness
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age
Youth is fair, a graceful stag, Leaping, playing in a park Age is gray, a toothless hag, Stumbling in the dark
The young feel tired at the end of an action; The old at the beginning
Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them
No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year
Old age is by nature rather talkative
Nature hath appointed twilight as a bridge to pass us out ofday into night
Few persons know how to be old
Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas;there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas
Age makes us not childish, as some say; it finds us still true children
Winter, which strips the leaves from around us, makes us see the distant regions they formerly concealed; so does old age rob us of our enjoyments, only to enlarge the prospect of eternity before us
Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay
I've never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality
Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom
When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that greatthings are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment; in these qualities old age is usually not only not poorer, but is even richer
Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasuresof youth
As for old age, embrace and love it
It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it
The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintainthat, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still
Even in decline, a virtuous man Increases the beauty of his behavior
A burning stick, though turned to the ground, Has its flame drawn upwards
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read
No Spring nor Summer Beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face
The evening of a well-spent life brings its lamps with it
Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay
Age, like distance lends a double charm.Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made
For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk
Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold! How beautifully leaves grow old
How full of light and colour are their last days
The man reaches his declining years and recalls the transitoriness of life
Instead of enjoying the ordinary pleasures while they last, he groans in melancholy
What else is an old man but voice and shadow? Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it
Nothing is more dishonorable than an old man, heavy with years, who has no other evidence of his having lived long except his age
Whoever saw old age that did not applaud the past and condemn the present?Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success
And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale
Old age is a tyrant, which forbids the pleasure of youth on pain of death
No skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to endure it
Thus pleasures fade away; Youth, talents, beauty, thus decay, And leave us dark, forlorn, and gray
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth as I am now
Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one
Few envy the consideration enjoyed by the eldest inhabitant.What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories
Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light andstrong, and although they grow old in years they will remainable-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to great advantage
Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor
One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully beforemaking a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance
It is always in season for old men to learn
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long
Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied
No wise man ever wished to be younger
To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us
If wrinkles must be written upon your brows, let them not bewritten upon the heart
The spirit should not grow old
All objects of this world are perishable
This body is subject to decay and death
Remembrance of this will wean your mind from the sensual pleasures and turn it inwards in awakening a sense of reality in the Unseen and the Invisible
A green old age, unconscious of decay That proves the hero born in better days
The mind of age is like a lamp Whose oil is running thin; One moment it is shining bright, Then darkness closes in
Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double,your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity? And will you yet call yourself young? He that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from star-like eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires; As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away
The sun, when he from noon declines, and with abated heat less fiercely shines; seems to grow milder as he goes away
An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away
Thus fares it still in our decay, And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind
All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest
Every season hath its pleasures; Spring may boast her flowery prime, Yet the vineyard's ruby treasures Brighten Autumn's sob'rer time
Years steal fire from the mind, as vigor from the limb; And life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it
The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sear
Fires that shook me once, but now to silent ashes fall'n away, Cold upon the dead volcano sleeps the gleam of dying day
How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all
Twilight, a timid fawn, went glimmering by, And Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast
Senescence begins And middle age ends,The day your descendents, Outnumber your friends
Doubt is the father of invention
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom
Despair is the conclusion of fools
Who never doubted, never half believed
Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow
Doubt is the opposite of belief
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.Doubt is the key to knowledge
True wisdom is less presuming than folly
The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not;he knoweth all things but his own ignorance
It is as hard for the good to suspect evil as it is for the bad to suspect good
In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven
Industry pays debts, despair increases them
The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to scepticism
Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt, be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins? Great doubts deep wisdom..
Small doubts little wisdom
Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight
He that knows nothing doubts nothing
Suspicion follows close on mistrust
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases
Skepticism means not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt
Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door
There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things
Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way
There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man
Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth
Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress
The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason
An honest man can never surrender an honest doubt
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingnessto believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt
Doubt separates people
It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations
It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills
Neither in this world nor elsewhere is there any happiness in store for him who always doubts
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt
To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us
Always to think the worst, I have ever found to be the mark of a mean spirit and a base soul
Suspicion is no less an enemy to virtue than to happiness
Despair is a mental state which exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness
Suspicion is a heavy armor, and with its own weight impedes more than protects
The fearful Unbelief is unbelief in yourself
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself
He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist
Pessimism is the one ism which kills the soul
When you doubt, abstain
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair
There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to knowlittle, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother
A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity nor conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by Action alone
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.The important thing is not to stop questioning
Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings
Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great oneI'll trust him no further than I can fling him
There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair
If the Sun and Moon should doubt They'd immediately Go out
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with thefirst moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to havedespaired and have recovered hope
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both
Ambition's like a circle on the water, Which never ceases to enlarge itself, 'Till by broad spreading it disperses to nought
Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it: enthusiasm signifies God in us
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort..
Enthusiasm...the sustaining power of all great action
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues
One often passes from love to ambition, but one rarely returns from ambition to love
The ambitious deceive themselves when they propose an end to their ambition; for that end, when attained, becomes a means
Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among foolsI prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast that however high we reach we are never satisfied
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals
Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth
She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm
Ambition is not what man does..
but what man would do
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal
The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul
Perpetual inspiration is as necessary to the life of good- ness, holiness and happiness as perpetual respiration is necessary to animal life
He who possesses the source of Enthusiasm Will achieve great things
Doubt not
You will gather friends around you As a hair clasp gathers the hair
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene
Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the worldis the triumph of some enthusiasm
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it moves stones, it charms brutes
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great
Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised
Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men
Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks
The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he pressethforward, he looketh not behind him
More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance
Ambition destroys its possessor
It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition that it never looks behind it
Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly
Ambition, a proud covetousness, or a dry thirst of honour, a great torture of the mind, composed of envy, pride, and covetousness, a gallant madness, one defines it a pleasant poison
A slave has but one master; the ambitious man has as many masters as there are persons whose aid may contribute to theadvancement of his fortune
Ambition - A lust that is never quenched, grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment
Ambition is a vice which often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country
There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame;A grave to rest in, and a fading name! Ambition: An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead
Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest
Fling away ambition; by that sin fell the angels: how can man then, the image of his Maker, hope to win by it?Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more
Too low they build who build beneath the stars
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings Great minds are carried only to extreme;To be sublimely great or to be nothing
Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding
Zealots have an idol, to which they consecrate themselves high-priests, and deem it holy work to offer sacrifices of whatever is most precious
Evil is simply misplaced force
It can be misplaced in time, like the violence that is acceptable in war is unacceptable in peace
It can be misplaced in space, like a burning coal on the rug rather than the fireplace
Or it can be misplaced in proportion, like an excess of love can make us overly sentimental, or a lack of love can make us cruel and destructive
It is in things such as these that evil lies, not in a personal Devil who acts as an Adversary
All cruelty springs from weakness
Sin is essentially a departure from God.Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance
What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance
They who are ashamed of what they ought not to be, and are not ashamed of what they ought to be, such men, embracing false doctrines, enter the evil path
They who fear when they ought not to fear, and fear not when they ought to fear, such men, embracing false doctrines, enter the evil path
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue
To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil by evil is evil
The evil man is like a pot of clay, easily breaking, but reunited with difficulty; whilst a good man is like a jar of gold,hard to break and quickly to be joined again
The greatest evils, are from within us; and from ourselves also we must look for the greatest good.Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains
The cruelty of the weak is more dreadful than that of the strong
Evil is a form of good, of which the results are not immediately manifest
The first lesson of history, is, that evil is good
Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result
Evil and good are God's right hand and left
He who does evil that good may come, pays a toll to the devil to let him into heaven
Sin may open bright as the morning, but it will end dark as night
Evil exists to glorify the good
Evil is negative good
It is a relative term
Evil can be transmuted into good
What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else
To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness
Evil events from evil causes spring
There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the art
There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies
The way to wickedness is always through wickedness
No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap
Through no amount of effort can a naturally wicked man Be turned into an honest one
However long you boil water, It is impossible to make it burn like fire
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it may be a saint; that boasteth of it is a devil
Sin first is pleasing, then it grows easy, then delightful, then frequent, then habitual, then confirmed; then the man is impenitent, then he is obstinate, then he is resolved never to repent, and then he is ruined
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does
Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them
Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of humanactions than the prospect of good
What maintains one vice would bring up two children
The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils
Sin puts on that which tempteth to destruction
It has been said that sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth, but a sting in its tail
This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil
If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable
Moral Evil is Falsehood in actions; as Falsehood is Crime in words
Injustice is the essence of Falsehood; and every false word is an injustice
Injustice is the death of the Moral Being, as Falsehood is the poison of the Intelligence
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness
One may say that evil does not exist for subjective man at all, that there exist only different conceptions of good
Nobody ever does anything deliberately in the interests of evil, for the sake of evil
Everybody acts in the interestsof good, as he understands it
But everybody understands it in a different way
Consequently men drown, slay, and kill one another in the interests of good
Evil is unspectacular and always human And shares our bed and eats at our own table
Sin is hoping for another life and...eluding the implacable grandeur of this life
Mankind fears an evil man But heaven does not.The best known evil is the most tolerable
The sun shines even on the wicked
Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines
Prudence collects, arranges, and uses them beneficially against the ills of life
We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that which is good is so rare
There is this good in real evils, - they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.The world loves a spice of wickedness
It is some compensation for great evils that they enforce great lessons
The fool who does evil to a man who is good, to a man who is pure and free from sin, the evil returns to him like the dust thrown against the wind
Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth
What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned? Cruelty is fed, not weakened by tears
Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues
Who though he has been born a man yet gives himself to evil ways, More foolish is he than the fool who fills with vomit, urine, dung Golden vessels jewel-adorned - harder man's birth to gain than these.Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction
The happiness of the wicked passes away like a torrent
If you do what you should not, you must bear what you would not
Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing
Men scanning the surface count the wicked happy; they see not the frightful dreams that crowd a bad man's pillow
It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law
Nature has no principles
She furnishesus with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected
Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil
If a man possesses a repentant spirit his sins will disappear, but if he has an unrepentant spirit his sins will continue and condemn him for their sake forever
Keep far way from an evil neighbor, do not associate with the wicked, and do not shrug off all thought of calamity
The gates of hell are three: lust, wrath and avarice
They destroy the Self
Avoid them
Let no man think lightly of evil, saying in his heart, it will not come to stay with me
Even by the falling of water-drops a water-pot is filled; the fool becomes full of evil, even if he gather it little by little
Every evil in the bud is easily crushed:as it grows older, it becomes stronger
If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good
O ye men! Eat of the produce of the earth things that are lawful and pure, and follow not the footsteps of the evil-one; surely, he is an enemy to you clear
Association with corrupt people is a pain, the cure of which is separating yourself from them
When better choices are not to be had, We needs must take the seeming best of bad
Each year, one vicious habit rooted in time ought to make the worst man good
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil! If a man has acted right, he has done well, though alone; if wrong, the sanction of all mankind will not justify him
The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good
For every evil under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none; If there be one, try and find it, If there is none, never mind it
Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both
The true rule in determining to embrace or reject anything is not whether it have any evil in it, but whether it have more of evil than of good
There are few things wholly evilor wholly good
Strive with thy thoughts unclean before they overpower thee.Use them as they will thee, for if thou sparest them and they take root and grow, know well, these thoughts will overpower and kill thee
Beware! Suffer not their shadow to approach
For it will grow, increase in size and power, and then this thing of darkness will absorb thy being beforethou hast well realized the black foul monster's presence
The butcher relenteth not at the bleating of the lamb; neither is the heart of the cruel moved with distress
But the tears of the compassionate are sweeter than dew-drops, falling from roses on the bosom of spring
If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts
In whatever manner you fashion a wicked man, It is impossible to make his nature good
You may wash charcoal with zeal, But you will not make it white
Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel;And, like the blast of pestilential winds, Taints the sweet bloom of nature's fairest forms
When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves with the idea that we have left them
Vice is a monster so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace
Scarcely anything awakens attention like a tale of cruelty
The writer of news never fails to tell how the enemy murdered children and ravished virgins
I would not enter in my list of friends,Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm
An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path, But he has the humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live
Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers on their road
- Both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived
There are times when it would seem as if God fished with a line, and the Devil with a net
But, by all thy nature's weakness, Hidden faults and follies known, Be thou, in rebuking evil, Conscious of thine own
Wild animals never kill for sport
Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself
It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that in all things good, gain is harder and slower than loss; but in all things bad or evil, getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of them
Vice is waste of life
Poverty, obedience, and celibacy are the canonical vices
The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murderwas in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours
It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake
Virtuous ten years - still not enough
Evil one day - too much already
Men do not fail; they give up trying
Failure - The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself
People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed
If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories
One seldom rushes into a single error
Rushing into the first one, one always does too much
Hence one usually commits another; and this time does too little
In this world there are only two tragedies
One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it
The last is much the worst; the last is a real tragedy! Defeat ensues when others interfere with the authority of the chosen leader
Divided command is often fatal
Few things are impracticable in themselves
It is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital
He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost
Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes
No man is a failure who is enjoying life
If the first words fail..
Ten thousand will not then avail
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better
How far high failure overleaps the bound of low successes
"All honor to him who shall win the prize," The world has cried for a thousand years; But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success
There is something good in all seeming failures
You are not to see that now
Time will reveal it
Be patient
It is often the failure who is the pioneer of new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure
There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being
The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety
Misfortunes one can endure - they come from outside, they are accidents
But to suffer for one's own faults - Ah! there is the sting of life
Man is not made for defeat
Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan
Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed
Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat...Health alone is victory
Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy! The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one
Conquer thyself
Till thou hast done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression
Do not repeat them in the future
Behold prosperity, how sweetly she flattereth thee; how insensibly she robbeth thee of thy strength and thy vigour! Though thou has been constant in ill fortune, though thou has been invincible in distress; yet by her thou art conquered: not knowing that thy strength returnethnot again; and yet that thou again mayst need it
What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will,And study of revenge, immortal hate And courage never to submit or yield, And what else is not to be overcome
There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be thought so
Not in the clamor of the crowded street,Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat
Greatly begin! Though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime- Not failure, but low aim is crime
We are the doubles of those whose way Was festal with fruits and flowers; Body and brain we were sound as they, But the prizes were not ours
Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid
Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last part, but fame relates all, and often more than all
Fame is the thirst of youth
The dog barks; the Caravan passes
Glory, like a shadow, flieth from him who pursueth it; but it followeth at the heels of him who would fly from it; if thou courtest it without merit, thou shalt never attain unto it; if thou deservest it, though thou hidest thyself, it will never forsake thee
There is no less danger from great fame than from infamy
Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again
Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them
Renown is a source of toil and sorrow; obscurity is a source of happiness
Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give
When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live
Fame is an illusive thing - here today, gone tomorrow
The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months
The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in them- selves, but they are like heat haze
I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known
Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long
Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught
The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things
Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little
And what is Fame? the Meanest have their Day, The Greatest can but blaze, and pass away
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him
Fame, we may understand is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property of a man
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers
Illusion is an element which enters into all finite things, for everything that exists has only a relative, not an absolute, reality, since the appearance which the hidden phenomenon assumes for any observer depends upon his power of cognition
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about somethingelse
The day will come when everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow
The love of glory gives an immense stimulus
It is pleasing to be pointed at with the finger and to have it said, "There goes the man." Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives
Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue
- The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life
Fame, they tell you, is air; but without air there is no life for any; without fame there is none for the best
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living
It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity
Though fame is smoke, its fumes are frankincense to human thoughts
Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds
Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car
It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign
And what after all is everlasting fame? All together vanityAll fame is dangerous: Good, bringeth Envy; Bad, Shame
Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them
Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men
There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work
What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath
A thing beyond us, even before our death
What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome
The paths of glory lead but to the grave
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent
How men long for celebrity! Some would willingly sacrifice their lives for fame, and not a few would rather be known by their crimes than not known at all
Fame and power are the objects of all men
Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.Fame is not just
She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs
Even the best things are not equal to their fame
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know
Fame is the penalty of success
Jealousy is the penalty of fame
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it
All the fame you should look for in lifeis to have lived it quietly
The fame of great men ought always to be estimated by the means used to acquire it
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit
Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead..
He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure
The dread of censure is the death of genius
The veil of illusion cannot be lifted by a mere decision of reason, but demands the most thoroughgoing and persever- ing preparation consisting in the full payment of all debts to life
The life, which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe
She (Fame) walks on the earth, and her head is concealed in the clouds
All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power
There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous
He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit,has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.O Fame! if I e'er took delight in thy praises, 'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover The thought that I was not unworthy to love her
Thou hast a charmed cup, O Fame! A draught that mantles high, And seems to lift this earthly frame Above mortality
Away! to me -a woman- bring Sweet water from affection's spring
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today will curse tomorrow, only one thing endures - character.Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time
Fame is a bee It has a song- It has a sting- Ah, too, it has a wing
Don't part with your illusions
When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live
It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes
They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved
Riches: A dream in the night..
Fame: A gull floating on water
The family is the nucleus of civilization
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another
If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden
But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden
If we could trace our descendants, we should find all slavesto come from princes, and all princes from slaves
Children sweeten labors; but they make misfortunes more bitter
Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong
The child is father of the man
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir
He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past
Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity
All happy families resemble one another;every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, so he be a man of merit
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name
It is a wise father that knows his own child
Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce
There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence
The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson
Men are what their mothers made them
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child
Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found
The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have
What gift has Providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children? Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them? Children are poor men's riches
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family
In the family where the father rules secure, there dwells the peace which thou wilt in vain seek for elsewhere in the wide world outside
To make a happy fire-side clime To weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life
Where children are, there is the golden age
Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands
But a mother's love endures through all.Nor need we power or splendour, Wide hall or lordly dome; The good, the true, the tender- These form the wealth of home
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven
Nature's loving proxy, the watchful mother
Children are the keys of paradise
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal,with possibilites of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison
Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace
He who boasts of his descent, praises the deeds of another
When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, And your throat coughs the last gasping breath - As one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - What assistance are a wife and child? He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief
Some people seem compelled by unkind fate to parental servitude for life
There is no form of penal servitude worse than this
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain
It is only shallow-minded pretenders who either make distinguished origin a matter of personal merit, or obscure origin a matter of personal reproach
Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness
Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and thesecond half by our children
I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have a wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots
A proper balance must be struck between indulgence and severity
However, severity, despite occasional mistakes, is preferable to a lack of discipline
Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old,he will not depart from it
It is fortunate to come of distinguished ancestry
- It is not less so to be such that people do not care to inquire whether you are of high descent or not
Children have more need of models than of critics
It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that wayyourself once in a while
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time
The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like a potato, - the only good belonging to him is underground
Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw
Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My Mother
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all! When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around
But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years
The bravest battle that ever was fought; Shall I tell you where and when? On the maps of the world you will find it not; It was fought by the mothers of men
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance
Children begin by loving their parents
After a time they judge them
Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them
If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still,Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, And that's what parents were created for
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy
The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, "I shall to-day be uppermost." Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on
It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life
Fortune is a shadow upon a wall
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves;we are underlings
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence
The wheel goes round and round, And some are up and some are on the down, And still the wheel goes round
Luck is tenacity of purpose
Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth
A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind
Birth goes with death
Fortune goes with misfortune
Bad things follow good things
Men should realize these
Foolish people dread misfortune and strive after good fortune, but those who seek Enlightenment must transcend both of them and be free of the worldly attachments
Fortune is never permanently...adverse or favorable; one sees her veering from one mood to the other
The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none
That which is not allotted - the hand cannot reach, and what is allotted - will find you wherever you may be
Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good Fortune deceived not
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.Every night and every morn Some to misery are born; Every morn and every night Some are born to sweet delight
It sounds like stories from the land of spirits, If any man obtain that which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them
It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind
Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled
No man has perpetual good fortune
Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time
Fortune is brittle as glass, and when she is most refulgent,she is often most unexpectedly broken
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow
This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life Depends upon one's actions
Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that whichwill be
The Moving Finger writes; and having writ, Moves on; nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it
He who owes least to fortune is in the strongest position
Fortune is a woman, and therefore friendly to the young, who with audacity command her
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall
Men at some time are masters of their fates
Every one is the architect of his own fortune
Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate
He that waits upon Fortune, is never sure of a Dinner
Human life is more governed by fortune than by reason
Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry
Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny
There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny
Shallow men believe in luck, wise and strong men in cause and effect.Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment
Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune
He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any timeis for the good of that man at that time
The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate
Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not knowhow to correct
To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into thevery lap of fortune: for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible
The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings
Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe The fate of many
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted
A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day
When fortune favors a man too much, she makes him a fool
Whatever fortune has raised to a height,she has raised only to cast it down
They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall
Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance
Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause
Fortune! There is no fortune; all is trial, or punishment, or recompense, or foresight
We do not know what is really good or bad fortune
Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day
Destiny - A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure
Diseases are often cured Never fate
See that prosperity elate not thine heart above measure; neither depress thy mind unto the depths, because fortune beareth hard against thee
Her smiles are not stable, therefore build not thy confidence upon them; her frowns endureth not forever, therefore let hope teach thee patienceGreat progress and success can be realized
But spring does not last forever, and the favorable trend will reverse itself in due time
The wise man foresees evil and handles its threat accordingly
People naturally fear misfortune and long for good fortune, but if the distinction is carefully studied, misfortune often turns out to be good fortune and good fortune to be misfortune
The wise man learns to meet the changing circumstances of life with an equitable spirit, being neither elated by success nor depressed by failure
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves
Persevere: It is fitting, for a better fate awaits the afflicted
If matters go badly now, they will not always be so
Chance is always powerful
- Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.Depend not on fortune, but on conduct
We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her
If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond
'Tis writ on Paradise's gate "Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!" If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune: for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible
What fates impose, that men must needs abide; It boots not to resist both wind and tide
There is tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries; on such a full sea we are now afloat; and we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures
Whether in favor or in humiliation, be not dismayed
Let your eyes leisurely look at the flowers blooming and falling in your courtyard
Whether you leave or retain your position, take no care
Let your mind wander with the clouds folding and unfolding beyond the horizon
We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity
It is a madness to make Fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled by Prudence.Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield
Chance generally favors the prudent
Intellect annuls fate
So far as a man thinks, he is free
No living man can send me to the shades Before my time; no man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his destiny
Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven
Wherever the fates lead us let us follow
The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash;And the lightning strikes the highest mountain
Two fates still hold us fast, A future and a past;Two vessels' vast embrace Surrounds us - Time and Space
Whenever we ask what end Our Maker did intend, Some answering voice is heard That utters no plain word
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth
Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers: To some she gives honor without deserving; To other some, deserving without honor; Some wit, some wealth, - and some, wit without wealth; Some wealth without wit; some nor wit nor wealth
Will Fortune never come with both hands full, But write her fair words still in foulest letters? She either gives a stomach, and no food;Such are the poor, in health: or else a feast, And takes away the stomach; such are the rich, That have abundance, and enjoy it not
'Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings
But blind to former as to future fate, What mortal knows his pre-existent state? Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread; Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow
All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme
The wheel of the Good Law moves swiftly on
It grinds by night and day
The worthless husks it drives from out the golden grain, the refuse from the flour
The hand of fate guides the wheel; the revolutions mark the beatings of the heart of manifestation Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her
I do not know beneath what sky Nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great
He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch To gain or lose it all
Fear makes men believe the worst
Worry, the interest paid by those who borrow trouble
What are fears but voices airy? Whispering harm where harm is not
And deluding the unwary Til the fatal bolt is shot! Fear always springs from ignorance
A panic is sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination
Favour and disgrace are like fear
Favour is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place
When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear
So favour and disgrace are like fear
Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back
Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man thinkthe better of another, the worse of himself
To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, Gives in your weakness strength unto your foe
He that fears you present, will hate you absent
From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing
The man who fears nothing is not less powerful than he who is feared by every one
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety
No one loves the man whom he fears
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them
Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish
For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship
Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.Present fears are less than horrible imaginings
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear
Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable
We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety
Fear is the mother of morality
Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself
I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul
Fear comes from uncertainty
When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear
Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it
Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it
It should not be suffered to tyrannize in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror, or to beset life with supernumerary distresses
Early and provident fear is the mother of safety
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.Fear is the mother of foresight
Good men have the fewest fears
He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice
As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger
Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty
In extreme danger fear feels no pity
Fear is proof of a degenerate mind
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear
Fear follows crime and is its punishment
In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism
Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning ofall evil
Worry - A god, invisible but omnipotent
It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength
Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, theseslay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia
If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear
Who sees all beings in his own Self, and his own Self in allbeings, loses all fear
Suffer no anxiety, for he who is a sufferer of anxiety becomes regardless of enjoyment of the world and the spirit, and contraction happens to his body and soul
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one
Only the moment you reject all help are you freed
Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself
Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day
An anthill increases by accumulation
Medicine is consumed by distribution
That which is feared lessens by association
This is the thing to understand
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live
What is not to be, will not be; if it is to be, it cannot be otherwise; why do you not drink this antidote that destroys the poison of care? Nothing is to be feared but fear
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear
Things without remedy, should be without regard; what is done, is done
Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoidedthan to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen
Keep in the sunlight
They can conquer who believe they can
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey
When one is in fear he should appear to be fearless
One should seem to be trustful while really mistrusting others
Such a man is never ruined
He who knows Self as the enjoyer of The honey from the flowers of the senses, Ever present within, ruler of time, Goes beyond fear
For this Self is Supreme! When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear
I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; What will come when it will come
I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine
Huge and mighty forms that do not live Like living men, moved slowly through the mind By day, and were a trouble to my dreams.Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round, walks on
And turns once more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread
Fear at my heart, as at a cup, My life-blood seemed to sip! Oh, fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong
I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made
Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star
Not to understand what is good and bad, Not to remember a kindness one has received, Not to marvel at what one has clearly perceived - These are the characteristics of a foolish man
Folly is wisdom spun too fine
A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends.The fool is not always unfortunate, nor the wise man always successful; yet never has a fool thorough enjoyment; never was a wise man wholly unhappy
When a wise man is advised of his errors, he will reflect on and improve his conduct
When his misconduct is pointed out, a foolish man will not only disregard the advice but rather repeat the same error
If a fool be associated with a wise man even all his life, he will perceive the truth as little as a spoon perceives the taste of soup
If an intelligent man be associated for only one minute with a wise man, he will soon perceive the truth, as the tongue perceives the taste of soup
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish
The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable
Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool
A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool
Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities
There are more fools than wise men; and even in wise men, more folly than wisdom
There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it
The wise man has his follies no less than the fool; but herein lies the difference - The follies of the fool are known to the world, but are hidden from himself; The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world
What the fool does in the end, the wise man does in the beginning
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise
There is a foolish corner even in the brain of the sage
It is the characteristic of folly to discern the faults of others and forget its own
Who are a little wise the best fools be.He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks
A fool can ask more questions than the wisest can answer
Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool
The first degree of folly is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise counsel
There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous...Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous
It is in the half foolsand the half wise that the great danger lies
Prejudice is the child of ignorance
Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame
There are many more fools in the world than there are knaves, otherwise the knaves could not exist
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing
It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while
The folly of one man is the fortune of another; for no man prospers so suddenly as by others' errors
Silence is the wit of fools
The fool is happy that he knows no more.The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little
Thou Graybeard, old Wisdom, mayst boast of thy treasures; Give me with young Folly to live; I grant thee thy calm-blooded, time-settled pleasures; But Folly has raptures to give
Let us be thankful for the fools
But for them the rest of us could not succeed
Greed, lust, fear, anger, misfortune, unhappiness, all are derived from foolishness
Thus, foolishness is the greatest of poisons.Ignorance, the product of darkness, stupefies the senses in all embodied beings, binding them by the chains of folly, indolence and lethargy
A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything
The fool who knows his foolishness, is wise at least so far
But a fool who thinks himself wise, he is called a fool indeed
To stumble twice against the same stone,is a proverbial disgrace
In other living creatures ignorance of self is nature; in man it is vice
Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great
Want and sorrow are the wages that folly earns for itself, and they are generally paid
Of all thieves fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none
None but a fool is always right
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism
Those who identify themselves with the body and have no soul-consciousness, are utterly ignorant, though they may possess University degrees
Man speaks of his glory and achievements
It is all vanity
At the bottom of it all are sex, food, indolence and ignorance
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do
He's a Fool that cannot conceal his Wisdom
I am always afraid of a fool; one cannot be sure he is not a knave
It is a great piece of folly to sacrifice the inner for the outer man
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questionsThe greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes
He who through the error of attachment loves his body, abides wandering in darkness, sensible and suffering the things of death, but he who realizes that the body is but the tomb of his soul, rises to immortality
What lies beyond life shines not to those who are childish, or careless, or deluded by wealth
"This is the only world:there is no other," they say; and thus they go from death to death
"These sons belong to me, and this wealth belongs to me"; with such thoughts a fool is tormented
He himself does not belong to himself; how much less sons and wealth? For take thy balance if thou be so wise,And weigh the wind that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise; Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster! A fool always finds some greater fool to admire him
Exactness is the sublimity of fools
A fool and his words are soon parted; a man of genius and his money
What a fool he must be who thinks that his El Dorado is anywhere but where he lives
Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done and fools what they wish to do
No man is free who cannot command himself
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law
Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been writtenis, when accurately defined, only the power of acting
The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty
Freedom - to walk free and own no superior
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of othermen
Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty
Freedom is the ferment of freedom
The moistened sponge drinks up water greedily; the dry one sheds it
Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom
Liberty has restraints but not frontiers
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage
No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.Communism destroys democracy
Democracy can also destroy Communism
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do
We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely
Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms
Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases? Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone
The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue
Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found
He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, and all are slaves beside
Liberty, according to my metaphysics...is a self-determiningpower in an intellectual agent
It implies thought and choice and power
Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the libertiesof the world are put in peril
The only freedom which deserves the nameis that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it
Freedom exists only where people take care of the government
Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired
Democracy is the worst system devised by the wit of man, except for all the others
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his ownwork and in that work does what he wants to do
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other
Democracy is a process, not a static condition
It is becoming, rather than being
It can easily be lost, but never is fully won
Its essence is eternal struggle
Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free
In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace
What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be preferred to all things
Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives
Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free
Freedom hath a thousand charms to show, That slaves however contented never know
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth
Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity
There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action
No man is free who is a slave to the flesh
No nation ancient of modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it
The wish to be independent of all men, and not to be under obligation to any one is the sure sign of a soul without tenderness
Liberty is slow fruit
It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man
The man who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self ismade to be a slave
The policy of Russia is changeless...Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of itspolicy - world domination - is a fixed star
Not free from what, but free for what? Liberty means responsibility
That is why most men dread it
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush
It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment
Communism is the death of the soul
It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does
...while they (Communists) preach the supremacy of the stateand predict its eventual domination of all peoples on Earth,they are the focus of evil in the modern world..
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it
Men well governed should seek after no other liberty, for there can be no greater liberty than a good government
Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost
Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest
Our liberty depends on freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost
Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew
Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers be the most powerful nation upon earth
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed
Whoever will be free must make himself free
Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap
What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom
You can only be free ifI am free
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands, they must be made brighter in our own...If in other lands the eternal truths of the past are threatened byintolerance, we must provide a safe place for their perpetuation
By All Resources Realize Yourself..
Fetters fall off of themselves when the knowledge of self is gained
The saving man becomes the free man
Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow, a good deal and a bad deed, one is able to realize freedom
The traveller has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the Infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more
Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think
How happy is he born and taught, That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill! If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free,- Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body.Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants
It is its natural manure
How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and in that freedom bold
When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air
She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there
Of old sat Freedom on the heights The thunders breaking at her feet: Above her shook the starry lights; She heard the torrents meet
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer
Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away
His brow is wet with honest sweat He earns what'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man
We Americans...bear the ark of liberties of the world
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either
All we have of freedom - all we use or know - This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago
Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies
What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine
A friend is, as it were, a second self
Friendship is Love without his wings! It is better to decide between our enemies than our friends;for one of our friends will most likely become our enemy; but on the other hand, one of your enemies will probably become your friend
He who hath many friends, hath none
To give counsel as well as to take it is a feature of true friendship
It may be doubtful, at first, Whether a person is an enemy or friend
Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal
Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find
That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end
He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength
Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also
He attracts and follows
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words
Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed
As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures
The mind is lowered through association with inferiors
With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority
A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; is is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings
Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation
The qualities of your friends will be those of your enemies,cold friends, cold enemies; half friends, half enemies; fervid enemies, warm friends
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost
The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it
A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can
The language of friendship is not words but meanings
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots
Secret forces are bringing compatible spirits together
If the man permits himself to be led by this ineffable attraction, good fortune will come his way
When deep friendships exist, formalities and elaborate preparations are not necessary
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend
There is nought better than to be With noble souls in company: There is nought dearer than to wend With good friends faithful to the end
This is the love whose fruit is sweet; Therefore to bide therein is meet
It is not so much our friends' help that helps as the confidence of their help
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief
Friendship is the shadow of the evening,which increases with the setting sun of life
Poor is the friendless master of a world; a world in purchase of a friend is gain.Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together
With true friends...even water drunk together is sweet enough
The joys that spring from external associations bring pain; they have their beginnings and their endings
The wise man does not rejoice in them
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends
He who pursues people for what they can give, And yet pays no heed to those who have offered much, Is like the man who thinks only of the butter to come, And pays no heed to what has already been churned
Friends are thieves of time
He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends
Whenever Fortune sends Disasters to our Dearest Friends, Although we outwardly may grieve, We oft are laughing in our sleeve
There have been fewer friends on earth than kings
Nothing more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable
If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world
An open foe may prove a curse, But a pretended friend is worse
The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.Give me the avowed, the erect, and manly foe, Bold I can meet, perhaps may turn the blow; But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh save me from the candid friend! The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out
Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by otherswill ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can
Rely on your own Self, your own inner spiritual strength
Stand on your own feet
Do not depend on money, friends or any one
When the friends are put to test, they will desertyou
People become friends and enemies from consideration of gainand loss
Self-interest plays a very prominent part
Self-interest is very powerful
It can turn a friend into an enemy in no time and an enemy also into a friend
There is no such thing in existence as a friend or an enemy
Friendship of officials..
Thin as their papers
Expect not a friendship with him who hath injured thee: he who suffereth the wrong, may forgive it; but he who doth it never will it be well with him
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity
Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself
Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men
Foresake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him
A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure
Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly
Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them
Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them
Friendship requires deeds
Go often to the house of thy friend, weeds choke the unused path
The only way to have a friend is to be one
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of afault
If any other can excel it, it is listening to such adisclosure with gratitude, and amending the error
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend
If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do
Think up something appropriate and do it
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead
Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired
The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie
Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, We will stand by each other, however it blow
There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money
Not until you become a stranger to yourself Will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend
Friendship is no plant of hasty growth; Tho' planted in esteem's deep fixed soil, The gradual culture of kind intercourse Must bring it to perfection
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other
A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short
Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest! The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends better
He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him
There are some people who are very resourceful At being remorseful,And who apparently feel the best way to make friends Is to do something terrible and then make amends
Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the uni- verse and are appointed by Heaven
Genius is eternal patience
Imagination is the eye of the soul
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it
Genius is the power of lighting one's own fire
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite
Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes
Genius is initiative on fire
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last
It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel
Genius does what it must, talent does what it can
Talent repeats, genius creates
Talent is a cistern; genius a fountain
Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius
To do great work a man must be very idleas well as very industrious
Inventing is a combination of brains and materials
The more brains you use, the less material you need
Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you
Genius must be born, and never can be taught
When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him
The merit of great men is not understood, but by those who are formed to be such themselves; genius speaks only to genius
Genius is independent of situation
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together
Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again
The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason and imagination, rarely or never
Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies
Their cousins can tell you nothing about them
There are geniuses in trade as well as in war, or state, or letters; and the reason why this or that man is fortunateis not to be told
It lies in the man: that is all anybodycan tell you about it
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius
He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas
Genius - To know without having learned;to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information
The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers
The honors of genius are eternal
There is no genius free from some tincture of madness
The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone
Genius survives; all else is claimed by death
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth
Imagination rules the world
The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality
Dead he is not, but departed, - for the artist never dies
Imagination is more important than knowledge
There is the happiness which comes from creative effort
The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in paintinga picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry
Work is the great redeemer
It has therapeutic value
It brings happiness
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do
If people knew how hard I have to work to gain my mastery it wouldn't seem wonderful at all
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation
The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet
Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius
The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty
The artists must be sacrificed to their art
Like the bees,they must put their lives into the sting they give
Talent is often to be envied, and genius very commonly to bepitied
It stands twice the chance of the other of dying ina hospital, in jail, in debt, in bad repute
It is a perpetual insult to mediocrity; its every word is a trespass against somebody's vested ideas
For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life
Genius and its rewards are briefly told:A liberal nature and a niggardly doom, A difficult journey to a splendid tomb
Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone
Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty
In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous
The public is wonderfully tolerant
It forgives everything except genius
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them
Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent every ill-judged outlay
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is
The three indispensables of genius are understanding, feel- ing, and perseverance
The three things that enrich genius are contentment of mind, the cherishing of good thoughts, and exercising the memory
Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old; condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite.The human body is the magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken
All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses
Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor
Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius
The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact
Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede - not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen
If we can advance propositions both true and new, these are our own by right of discovery; and if we can repeat what is old, more briefly and brightly than others, this also becomes our own, by right of conquest
Genius lasts longer than Beauty
That accounts for the factthat we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself
When I am finishing a picture I hold God a made object up toit - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a kind of final test
If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic
If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art
Every good act is charity
A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows
Goodness is beauty in its best estate
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness
No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it
Goodness is love in action
It is noble to be good
Goodness is the greatest virtue
Every good deed is a grainof seed for immortality or eternal life.The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours
If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad
He who receives a good turn should never forget it; he who does one should never remember it
Good and evil, we know, in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably
Whatever mitigates the woes or increases the happiness of others - this is my criterion of goodness
And whatever injures society at large, or any individual, in it - this is my measure of iniquity
A good person can put himself in the place of a bad person more easily than a bad person can put himself in the place of a good person
He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse
As the purpose is emptied the heart is filled
Giving is true having
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blindcan read
Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received?Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy? If you always give You will always have
As the branches of a tree return their sap to the root, fromwhence it arose; as a river poureth its streams to the sea, whence its spring was supplied; so the heart of a grateful man delighteth in returning a benefit received
Heaven endows man with innate goodness
Instinctive devotion to this spirit leads to success, though conscious purpose jeopardizes nature's innocence
But even with instinctive sincerity, action must be in accord with the will of heaven
The highest goodness is like water
Water benefits all things and does not compete
It stays in the lowly places which others despise
Therefore it is near The Eternal
That gift which is given out of duty, at the proper time and place, to a worthy person, and without expectation of return, is considered to be charity in the mode of goodness.A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself
Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness
I have found men more kind than I expected, and less just
As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe
No good book, or good thing of any sort,shows its best face at first
There is many a good man to be found under a shabby hat
As the rose breatheth sweetness from its own nature, so the heart of a benevolent man produceth good works
Kindness in words creates confidence
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness
Kindness in giving creates love
Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies
Kindness gives birth to kindness
Just as a man who has long been far away is welcomed with joy on his safe return by his relatives, well-wishers and friends; in the same way the good works of a man in his life welcome him in another life, with the joy of a friend meeting a friend on his return
A good disposition I far prefer to gold;for gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of nature
I prefer much rather to be called good than fortunate
Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men
Charity suffereth long and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up
If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the poor, then that is better still for you; and this wipes off from you some of your evil deeds
If you lend money, it is uncertain Whether you shall be repaid; But if you bestow alms, though they be small, Your return will be a hundred-fold
Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing
It is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence and turn upon the poles of truth
Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows
Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles
He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away
Goodness is the only investment which never fails
No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness
Charity performed at an improper place and time and given tounworthy persons without respect and with contempt is charity in the mode of ignorance
It is not goodness to be better than the very worst
With gifts, you may gather your enemies about you
When giving nothing, even your own family will leave
I know and love the good, yet ah! the worst pursue
There is no man so good who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the law, whould not deserve hanging ten times in his life
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness unless he hasthe strength of character to be wicked
All other goodness is generally nothing but indolence or impotence of will
The spirit of the world has four kinds of spirits diametrically opposed to charity: resentment, aversion, jealousy, and indifference
Look around the habitable world, how fewKnow their own good, or knowing it, pursue
Better is the enemy of good
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequethed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it
If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like
Let the stronger man give to the man whose need is greater; let him gaze upon the lengthening path of life
For riches roll like the wheels of a chariot, turning from one to another
All strangers and beggars are from God, and a gift, though small, is precious
Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong
Treat those who are good with goodness, And also treat those who are not good with goodness
Thus goodness is attained
Be honest to those who are honest, And be also honest to those who are not honest
Thus honesty is attained..
Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not to others what thou wouldst not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries
Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf
Make haste and do what is good; keep your mind away from evil
If a man is slow in doing good, his mind finds pleasure in evil
It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny
We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, andwithout hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers
Ask thyself, daily, to how many ill-minded persons thou hastshown a kind disposition
Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can
Do good to thy Friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him
To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life
Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself
To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power
There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us, That it hardly becomes any of us To talk about the rest of us
Goodness is the race which God hath set him to run, and happiness the goal; which none can arrive at till he hath finished his course, and received his crown in the mansions of eternity
Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme
Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful
Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just
Perseverance is the foundation of all actions
Never are noble spirits Poor while their like survive; Pure love has gems to render, And virtue wealth to give
Never is lost or wasted The goodness of the good..
Prayer carries us half-way to God, fasting brings us to the door of his palace, and alms-giving procures us admission
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity there is no excess, neither can angel or man come in danger by it
That best portion of a good man's life, His little nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love
He was so good he would pour rose-water on a toad
There is dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens its cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself, and the drops run off
God rains His goodness and mercy as widespread as the dew, and if we lack them, it is because we will not open our hearts to receive them
If I knew...that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.For the cause that lacks The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do
There's no dearth of kindness In this world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers
Let not the fierce sun dry one tear of pain before thyself hast wiped it from the sufferer's eye
Life is mostly froth and bubble; two things stand like stone: kindness in another's trouble, courage in our own
The word good has many meanings
For example, if a man wereto shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man
One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud; And sure, the reverent eye must see A purpose in Liquidity
All men's gains are the fruit of venturing
Growth is the only evidence of life
Spring - An experience in immortality
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances
The way of heaven is to diminish the prosperous and augment the needy
The superior man gains without boasting.Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor
He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense
Sometimes the best gain is to lose
Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know
An old young man, will be a young old man
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution
Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny
When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order
Climb mountains to see lowlands
Every phase of evolution commences by being in a state of unstable force and proceeds through organization to equilibrium
Equilibrium having been achieved, no further development is possible without once more oversetting the stability and passing through a phase of contending forces
A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair
A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth
A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet
Whosoever acts spoils it
Whosoever keeps loses it
Youth holds no society with grief
Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day
Just as the twig is bent the tree is inclined
At 20 years of age the will reigns; At 30 the wit; At 40 the judgment
Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes
If spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change! All growth depends upon activity
There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work
The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and 'consciousness' cannot evolve unconsciously
The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and 'will' cannot evolve involuntarily
The evolution of man is the evolution of his power of doing, and 'doing' cannot be the result of things which 'happen.'All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live
Enough shovels of earth..........................a mountain.Enough pails of water...............................a river.Those who have high thoughts are ever striving; they are not happy to remain in the same place
Like swans that leave their lake and rise into the air, they leave their home and fly for a higher home
That age is best which is the first When youth and blood are warmer
Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie
The morning hour has gold in its mouth
The morning of life is like the dawn of day, full of purity, of imagery, and harmony.Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes
Youth is the trustee of prosperity
The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air.How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams!Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend! The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development
Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better
The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright...The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion
An evil gain equals a loss
It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence
Youthful rashness skips like a hare over the meshes of good counsel
The greatest part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable
No gain without pains
The self-conceit of the young is the great source of those dangers to which they are exposed
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow
Spring makes everything young again except man
Consider what heavy responsibility lies upon you in your youth, to determine, among realities, by what you will be delighted, and, among imaginations, by whose you will be led
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn
Growing is not easy, plain sailing business that it is commonly supposed to be: it is hard work - harder than any but a growing boy can understand; it requires attention, and you are not strong enough to attend to your bodily growth and to your lessons too
Within the earth, wood grows: The image of Pushing Upward
Thus the superior man of devoted character Heaps up small things In order to achieve something high and great
The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth
He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind
Let this be an example for the acquisition of all knowledge,virtue, and riches
By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled
By depending on the great, The small may rise high
See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top
The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much
He is not rich that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is not poor that enjoys little, but he that wants too much
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do
The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night
...all good growth is slow growth
A change of being cannot be brought about by any rites
Rites can only mark an accomplished transition
And it is only in pseudo-esoteric systems in which there is nothing else except these rites, that they begin to attribute to the rites an independent meaning...Inner growth, a change of being, depends entirely upon the work which a man must doon himself
The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness
The spark hangs from the flame by the finest thread of eternal vital power
It journeys through the Seven Worlds of illusion
It stops in the first, and is a metal and a stone; it passes into the second and behold - a plant; the plant whirls through seven changes and becomes a sacred animal
From the combined attributes of these, the thinker is formed..
The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god
In saffron-colored mantle, from the tides of ocean rose the morning to bring light to gods and men
For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land
Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose
That Youth's sweet-scented manuscript should close! The Nightingale that in the branches sang Ah whence and whither flown again, who knows? As when the golden sun salutes the morn,And, having gilt the ocean with his beams, Gallops the zodiac in his glistering coach, And overlooks the highest-peering hills.See! led by Morn, with dewy feet, Apollo mounts his golden seat, Replete with seven-fold fire; While, dazzled by his conquering light, Heaven's glittering host and awful night Submissively retire
The morn is up again, the dewy morn, with breath all incense, and with cheek all bloom, laughing the clouds away with playful scorn, and glowing into day
I was always an early riser
Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness
The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child
An acorn is not an oak tree when it is sprouted
It must gothrough long summers and fierce winters; it has to endure all that frost and snow and side-striking winds can bring before it is a full grown oak
These are rough teachers; but rugged schoolmasters make rugged pupils
So a man is not a man when he is created; he is only begun
His manhoodmust come with years
All common things, each day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend
There is no time like Spring, When life's alive in everything, Before new nestlings sing, Before cleft swallows speed their journey back Along the trackless track
When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fill the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain
Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf
When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great
And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys
Why build these cities glorious If man unbuilded goes? In vain we build the world unless The builder also grows
The splendid discontent of God With chaos, made the world..
And from the discontent of man The world's best progress springs
I sing the first green leaf upon the bough, The tiny kindling flame of emerald fire, The stir amid the roots of reeds, and how The sap will flush the briar
Where there is joy there is creation
Where there is no joythere is no creation: know the nature of joy
Happiness is unrepented pleasure
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness
Happiness is the light on the water
The water is cold and dark and deep
Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind
Happiness? That's nothing more than good health and a poor memory
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness
Contentment is natural wealth; luxury, artificial poverty
The nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of summer and winter seasons
A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: Either he abandons all earthly interests Or else he possesses much which could be abandoned
Contentment consisteth not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated
True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet
The bringers of joy have always been the children of sorrow.Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring
Indecision regarding the choice among pleasures temporarily robs a man of inner peace
After due reflection, he attainsjoy by turning away from the lower pleasures and seeking thehigher ones
We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man
A contented mind confers it on all
Happiness hath he who renounces this cycle of being, which is utterly unsubstantial and overwhelmed by the pains of birth, death, old age and disease
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy.I were but little happy if I could say how much
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are
Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows,Less on exterior things than most suppose
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the resultof a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops
To be happy is not the purpose of our being, but to deserve happiness
We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear long the burden of great joys
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources
Be it jewel or toy, Not the prize gives the joy, But the striving to win the prize
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened
Happiness never decreases by being shared
Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non-Being
What is there given by the gods more desirable than a happy hour? Happiness seems made to be shared
Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm
Joys too exquisite to last, and yet more exquisite when past
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best
He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length
No one can be said to be happy until he is dead
We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away
One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to bemiserable
Happiness is nothing if it is not known,and very little if it is not envied
The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick
There is even a happiness that makes the heart afraid
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind
Capacity for joy Admits temptation
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken
A lifetime of happiness! It would be hell on earth
As the ivy twines around the oak, so do misery and misfortune encompass the happiness of man
Felicity, pure and unalloyed, is not a plant of earthly growth; her gardens are the skies
If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it
Man never is so happy as when he givethhappiness unto another
He who, before he leaves his body, learns to surmount the promptings of desire and anger is a saint and is happy
Avoid greatness; in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favorites enjoy
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonablenature
Know then this truth, enough for man to know Virtue alone is happiness below
To have joy one must share it
Happiness was born a twin
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally
Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it
Do not look back on happiness - or dream of it in the future
You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it
There is no end of craving
Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness
Therefore, acquire contentment
The wise realizing through meditation the timeless Self, beyond all perception, deep in the cave of the heart leave pleasure and pain far behind
The man who knows he is neither body nor mind, but the eternal Self, divine principle of existence, finds the source of all joy and lives in joy abiding
Happiness is brief
It will not stay
God batters at its sails
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt
What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence
And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition
From trial he wins his spirits light, From busy day the peaceful night; Rich, from the very want of wealth, In heaven's best treasures - peace and health
Existence is a strange bargain
Life owes us little; we owe it everything
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose
There's a hope for every woe, And a balm for every pain, But the first joys of our heart Come never back again! The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, "Let no one be called happy till his death;" to which I would add, "Let no one, till his death be called unhappy." One by one (bright gifts from heaven) Joys are sent thee here below; Take them readily when given, Ready, too, to let them go
All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it

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