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Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.
There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.
Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.
Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.
The ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.
Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it.
Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,
whither it flows back again.
Man is a substance clad in shadows.
Commerce has made all winds her mistress.
Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.
Color, in the outward world, answers to feeling in man; shape, to thought; motion, to will. The dawn of day is the nearest outward likeness of an act of creation; and it is, therefore, also the closest type in nature for that in us which most approaches to creation
the realization of an idea by an act of the will.
Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.
Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.
Knowledge, or more expressively truth,
for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,
truth is an ideal whole.
An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.
A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.
Like earth, awake, and warm, and bright
With joy the spirit moves and burns;
So up to thee! O Fount of Light!
Our light returns.
