“’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier.’”
“No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don’t knock your friends. Don’t knock your enemies. Don’t knock yourself.”
“Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.”
“I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.”
“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.”
“To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
“By blood a king, in heart a clown.”
“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”
“All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.”
“Love is the only gold.”
“The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.”
“Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.”
“So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.”
“There’s no glory like those who save their country.”
“Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?”
“Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.”
“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”
“And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro’ nature, moulding men.”
“We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother’s shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.”
“I am a part of all that I have met.”
“A sorrow’s crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.”
“Ring out the false, ring in the true.”
“He makes no friends who never made a foe.”
“Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.”
“My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.”
“Tis not too late to seek a newer world.”
“God’s finger touched him, and he slept.”
“Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.”
“Authority forgets a dying king.”
“Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.”
“A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.”
“Who is wise in love, love most, say least.”
“What rights are those that dare not resist for them?”
“Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.”
“I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.”
“Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.”
“There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.”
“A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.”
“Better not be at all than not be noble.”
“O earth, what changes hast thou seen!”
“Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.”
“A day may sink or save a realm.”
“In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.”
“The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.”
“Believe me, than in half the creeds.”
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