We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.
We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.
To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden. Different Translation To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence, this makes our earthly ball a people garden.
Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
A nothing, a mere chance, oft gives him life again.
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work
Fraught with rapture is the night!
Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.
Here, too, love and life I find.
He alone is great and happy who requires neither to command nor to obey in order to secure his being of some importance in this world
He who cannot love must learn to flatter.
Vanish'd days of bliss and woe.
The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.
Thy coldness puts to flight my joy.
It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
'Be thou a sign of my bliss!
However often we turn to it the Koran at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our reverence.... Its style, in accordance with its contents and aim is stern, grand, terrible - ever and anon truly sublime Thus this book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence.
Oh, what bliss were the night!
Patriotism ruins history.
I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.
We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Lifes field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.
Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease.
I sometimes wonder whether our planet is the asylum of the universe for disordered minds.
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.
Nine keys to contentment Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength enough to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbors. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.
Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.
There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them
Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves otherwise we harden.
If youth is a fault, it is one which is soon corrected
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
What makes people happy is activity changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.
A wife is a gift bestowed upon man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise
As our inclinations, so our opinions.
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
Only law can give us freedom.
To the gods of old we'll hasten, blest.
I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
National literature no longer means very much, the age of world literature is due.
No one should be rich except those who understand it.
A distracted existence leads us to no goal.
Who e'er can crush Thy light?
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a human.
HOPE provides wings to thought, and love to hope.
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