“The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service”
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“The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service”
“Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend”
“Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, act in the living present! Heart within and God overhead”
“Not enjoyment, and not sorrow is our destined way, but to act that each tomorrow may find us further than today”
“As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical”
“The human voice is the organ of the soul”
“A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child”
“Youth comes but once in a lifetime”
“The day is done, and the darkness, falls from the wings of night, as a feather is wafted downward, from an eagle in his flight”
“The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide”
“Nature is a revelation of God; art is a revelation of man”
“The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and strain from the lees of the vat”
“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!”
“Sit in reverie, and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind”
“All are architects of fate, working in these walls of time”
“Joy and temperance and repose - slam the door on the doctor's nose”
“The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air”
“The world loves a spice of wickedness”
“In this world, a man must either be anvil or hammer”
“The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy”