It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade |
It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness / calling their denial knowledge. |
It is never to late to be what you might have been |
It is never too late to be what you might have been. |
It is never too late to become what you might have been |
It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves. |
It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care. |
It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable. |
It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself',' and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident. |
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. |
It was a pity he couldna be hatched o'er again, an' hatched different. |
It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism. |
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. |
It's but little good you'll do, a watering the last year's crop |
It's no trifle at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution |