“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”
Knowledge“Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.”
Death“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”
Knowledge“Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.”
Imagination“I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.”
God“None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.”
Alone“If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.”
Men“Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.”
Work“I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”
Wisdom“The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.”
Happiness“The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.”
Courage“Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.”
Music“Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.”
Good“History, a distillation of rumour.”
History“The eye sees what it brings the power to see.”
Power“Every noble work is at first impossible.”
Work“For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.”
Good“This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.”
Science“What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.”
Teacher“A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.”
Work“Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.”
Time“Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.”
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