Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
From Thomas Carlyle
No violent extreme endures.
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
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