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Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and...
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.
Source: In Webster's...
Our strength grows out of our weakness.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Source: Essays, ...
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
Source: In...
Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.
The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain...
Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Source: Essays, Circles ...
People are to be taken in very small doses.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it,...
The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
Source: In
See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.
Source: In
Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it...
People only see what they are prepared to see.
Source: In Quotable Business, ed....
Real action is in silent moments.
Source: In
The excellent is new forever.
Source: In Pearls of Wisdom, ed. J. Agel and W....
Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right...
Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.