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Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Inspiration must find answering inspiration.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Madame de Staël pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystallized spirituality.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
None can teach admirably if not loving his task.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another’s.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Where there is a mother in the house, matters speed well.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Thought means life, since those who do not think do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Our favorites are few: since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters journey.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Equanimity is the gem in virtue’s chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)