The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.
The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.
He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
Let us all, then,
Adore the Father!
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
The little man is still a man.
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
The day is committed to error and floundering success and achievement are matters of long range.
Oh youth, thou must thyself restrain!
Everything great and intelligent is in the minority
Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer
One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here.
Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language
Ah, e'en Earth can never cool down love!
I once was fond of fools,
If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.
Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
Tomorrow sees undone, what happens not to-day Still forward press, nor never tire The possible, with steadfast trust, Resolve should be by the forelock grasp. Then she will neer let go her clasp, And labors on, because she must.
They travel with a constant companion, autumn.
Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.
Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.
What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
Flowers are beautiful hieroglyphics of nature, with which she indicates how much she loves us.
Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
Girls we love for what they are men for what they promise to be.
It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to us our relationship to it, if our hearts fail to tell us what we owe ourselves and others, we shall assuredly not learn it from books, which are at best designed but to give names to our errors.
The history of science is science itself the history of the individual, the individual.
Should the verdure give me joy?
If you want to make life easy, make it hard.
Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Faith is like private capital, stored in ones own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance in their days of need but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself.
Youth, alas, throughout life as closely to age is united.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished
To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
Life teaches us to be less severe with ourselves and others.
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
How this prospect would enchant my sight!
I love those who yearn for the impossible.
The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.
Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories