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Nothing exasperates the spirit in man more than power which seems unconquerable and which makes impotent all protest.
The victors in great wars have always been spiritually defeated by the conquered.
The relation of landlord and tenant is not an ideal one, but any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.
We are tired who follow after fantasy and truth that flies: You with only look and laughter stain our hearts with richest dyes.
You can't evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.
Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.
We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.
We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell.
When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.
People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, and that it was only in the city that the flame of divinity breathed into the first men had an unobscured glow.
After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor.
Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.
Whiskey: a torchligh procession marching down your throat.
The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown all over the world, and shall blow for centuries yet.
Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side.
Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.
It is true the orator may make a myriad replica of his own passion out of those who listen to him. But that does not prove he is right or they are not fools.
We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.
The world can only be free when men are content in themselves and each draws from his own fountain.
I lay this down as a fundamental proposition, which I do not think will be denied, that whoever controls the taxation and trade policy of a country controls its destiny and the entire character of its civilization.
