Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
From Thomas Carlyle
Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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