“I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt”
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“I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt”
“I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work”
“When a man's busy, why leisure strikes him as wonderful pleasure: faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightaway he wants to be busy”
“So free we seem, so fettered fast we are”
“The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it”
“The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest”
“All men were created to busy themselves with labor for the common good”
“Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself”
“Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach”
“Life has a higher end, than to be amused”
“He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a lifetime is unraveled”
“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done”
“We will now discuss in a little more detail the struggle for existence”
“Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair”
“Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain”
“A child's a plaything for an hour”
“The secret of happiness is having something meaningful to do, seeking purpose”
“Life is a struggle, but not a warfare”
“We can outrun the wind and the storm, but we cannot outrun the demon of hurry”
“Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.”