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- Wisdom and spirit of the Universe!
Thou soul is the eternity of thought! That giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion! Not in vain By day or star-light thus from by first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul, Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things, With life and nature, purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline Both pain and fear, until we recognize A grandeur in the beatings of the heart. - William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
- Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.
- Anne Besant (1847 - 1933)
- Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted,
If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
- People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.
- William Bennet Munro
- I pray thee cease thy counsel,
Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- Tis the witching hour of night,
Or bed is the moon and bright, And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen For what listen they? - John Keats (1795 - 1821)
- So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.
- Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)
- Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.
- Elihu Burritt
- Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
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