Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
From Thomas Carlyle
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
No pressure, no diamonds.
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