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"A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, to his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God."
"What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions."
"Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house."
"Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it."
"He who is not actively kind is cruel!"
"If you want to work for the kingdom of God, and to bring it, and enter into it, there is just one condition to be first accepted. You must enter into it as children, or not at all."
"Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not."
"The man who accepts the laissez-faire doctrine would allow his garden to grow wild so that roses might fight it out with the weeds and the fittest might survive."
"The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things — not merely industrious, but to love industry — not merely learned, but to love knowledge — not merely pure, but to love purity — not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice."
"Geology does better in reclothing dry bones and revealing lost creations, than in tracing veins of lead and beds of iron; astronomy better in opening to us the houses of heaven than in teaching navigation; surgery better in investigating organiation than in setting limbs; only it is ordained that, for our encouragement, every step we make in science adds something to its practical applicabilities."
"Not without design does God write the music of our lives."
"It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend."
"This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division."
"The highest thoughts are those which are least dependent on language, and the dignity of any composition and praise to which it is entitled are in exact proportion to its dependency of language or expression."
"Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use."
"Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time, and not be discouraged at the rests. If we say sadly to ourselves, "There is no music in a rest," let us not forget " there is the making of music in it." The making of music is often a slow and painful process in this life. How patiently God works to teach us! How long He waits for us to learn the lesson!"
"All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by everything that falls in their way. The greatest, is he who has been oftenest aided. Originality is the observing eye."
"Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer."
"Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think."
"If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it."