“I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”
Wisdom“Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.”
Alone“I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”
Wisdom“Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”
Music“A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.”
Work“If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.”
Music“Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.”
Good“Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.”
Beauty“For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?”
Good“Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.”
Business“The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.”
Fear“Work alone is noble.”
Alone“Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.”
Men“In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government.”
Government“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“A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.”
Hope“There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.”
Good“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.”
Great“The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.”
Great“The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.”
Happiness“Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.”
Work“I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.”
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