Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie |
Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do. |
Error is discipline through which we advance. |
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach. |
Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do. |
Every man is a volume, if you know how to read him. |
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance. |
Everything here but the soul of man is a passing shadow. The only enduring substance is within. When shall we awake to the sublime greatness, the perils, the accountableness, and the glorious destinies of the immortal soul? |
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration. |
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it. |
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it. |
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages |
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth. |
Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life. |
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. |