“No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.”
Great“In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.”
Wisdom“No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.”
Great“Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.”
Science“Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.”
Love“When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.”
Great“Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.”
Travel“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
Hope“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.”
Love“I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.”
Home“A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.”
Happiness“Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.”
Truth“Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.”
Death“Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.”
History“For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.”
Best“An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.”
Peace“The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.”
Best“In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.”
Experience“Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.”
Truth“I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.”
Best“In every parting there is an image of death.”
Death“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.”
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