“The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.”
Happiness“If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.”
Music“The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.”
Happiness“The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.”
Good“It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.”
Hope“A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.”
Work“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“The eye sees what it brings the power to see.”
Power“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“History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.”
Great“Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.”
Science“Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.”
Good“Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.”
Power“Wonder is the basis of worship.”
Religion“True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.”
Humor“Clever men are good, but they are not the best.”
Best“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“Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.”
Men“The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.”
Great“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”
Knowledge“To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.”
Men“War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.”
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