First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.
Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
Our ideals are our better selves.
Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
A work of real merit finds favor at last.
Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.
Thinking makes the man.
The less routine the more life.
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
The traveled mind is the universal mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories