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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come...
Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and...
Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for...
Every noble crown is, and on earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
Source: Past...
Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe.
Source: Sartor Resartus, Bk ii. Ch. 9
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Everywhere in life the true question is, not what we have gained, but what we do.
Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.
By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his...
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property...
Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of...
Figure him there, with his scrofulous diseases, with his great greedy heart, and unspeakable chaos of thoughts;...
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.
Source: History of the French...
Fancy that thou deservest to be hanged. . . thou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot: fancy that thou deservest to...
For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and...
For the 'superior morality,' of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were...
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
Source: In
History is the distillation of rumor.
Source: In
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here...