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Daily with souls that cringe and plot,
We Sinais climb and know it not.
Topic: Mountains
Source: The Vision of Sir Launfal (prelude to pt. I)
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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
Topic: Negativity
Source: None
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Be noble! and the nobleness that lies
In other men, sleeping, but never dead,
Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.
Topic: Nobility
Source: Sonnet IV
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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
Topic: Opinion
Source: None
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We remain
Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.
Topic: Past
Source: The Cathedral (l. 234)
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Endurance is the crowning quality,
And patience all the passion of great hearts.
Topic: Patience
Source: Columbus (l. 237)
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He gives us the very quintessence of perception.
Topic: Perception
Source: My Study Windows--Coleridge
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There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.
Topic: Perspective
Source: None
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Who gives himself with his alms feeds three,
Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
Topic: Philanthropy
Source: The Vision of Sir Launfal (pt. II, VIII)
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Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession,
many.
Topic: Possession
Source: Among My Books--New England Two Centuries Ago
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From lower to the higher next,
Not to the top, is Nature's text;
And embryo good, to reach full stature,
Absorbs the evil in its nature.
Topic: Progress
Source: Festina Lente--Moral
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New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth;
They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of
truth.
Topic: Progress
Source: Present Crisis
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My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow:
Don't never prophesy--onless ye know.
Topic: Prophecy (Prophesy)
Source: The Biglow Papers (no. 2, Mason and Slidell)
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It takes a mind like Dannel's, fact, ez big ez all ou'doors
To find out thet it looks like rain arter it fairly pours.
Topic: Prophecy (Prophesy)
Source: The Biglow Papers (no. 9, l. 97)
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But civlyzation doos git forrid
Sometimes upon a powder-cart.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Biglow Papers (series I, no. 7)
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A crime in which many are implicated goes unpunished.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Biglow Papers (series I, no. 7)
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Avoid delays: procrastination always does harm.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Biglow Papers (series I, no. 7)
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Great cowardice is hidden by a bluster of daring.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Biglow Papers (series I, no. 7)
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Great things rush to the destruction of each other.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Biglow Papers (series I, no. 7)
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He puts his boot on his head, and his foot in his helmet.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Biglow Papers (series I, no. 7)
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He stands the shadow of a mighty name.
[Lat., Stat magni nominis umbra.]
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Biglow Papers (series I, no. 7)
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Idleness induces caprice.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Biglow Papers (series I, no. 7)
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Patience revels in misfortunes.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Biglow Papers (series I, no. 7)
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Regarding nothing as done, while ought remained to be done.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Biglow Papers (series I, no. 7)
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The apprehension of approaching evil has hurried many into the
utmost danger.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Biglow Papers (series I, no. 7)
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The shadow of a mighty name.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Biglow Papers (series I, no. 7)
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Villany reduces those whom it defiles to the same level.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Biglow Papers (series I, no. 7)
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Who will think that the gods can be insulted with impunity?
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Biglow Papers (series I, no. 7)
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With bated breath we offer wicked vows.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Biglow Papers (series I, no. 7)
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Behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Topic: Providence
Source: The Present Crisis (st. 8)
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In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.
Topic: Race
Source: None
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What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
Topic: Rank
Source: None
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An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
Topic: Reason
Source: None
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The idol is the measure of the worshipper.
Topic: Religion / Beliefs
Source: None
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In life's small things be resolute and great
To keep thy muscle trained: knowst thou when Fate
Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee,
"I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?"
Topic: Resolution
Source: Epigram
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There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.
Topic: Reverie
Source: None
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A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
Topic: Sarcasm
Source: None
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So we're all right, an' I, for one,
Don't think our cause'll lose in vally
By rammin' Scriptur' in our gun,
An' gittin' Natur' for an ally.
Topic: Scripture
Source: The Biglow Papers (second series, no. 7, st. 17)
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Our seasons have no fixed returns,
Without our will they come and go;
At noon our sudden summer burns,
Ere sunset all is snow.
Topic: Seasons
Source: To -----
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Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.
Topic: Self-control
Source: None
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It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
Topic: Self-control
Source: None
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Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
Topic: Sentiment
Source: None
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Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
Topic: Sentiment
Source: None
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They are slaves who fear to speak
For the fallen and the weak;
. . . .
They are slaves who dare not be
In the right with two or three.
Topic: Slavery
Source: Stanzas on Freedom (last stanza)
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The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called
the savior of society by the next.
Topic: Society
Source: Don Quixote
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Nursed by stern men with empires in their brains.
Topic: Statesmanship
Source: The Biglow Papers--Mason and Slidell
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In general those who nothing have to say
Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.
Topic: Talk
Source: To Charles Eliot Norton
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Of my merit
On that pint you yourself may jedge:
All is, I never drink no sperit,
Nor I haint never signed no pledge.
Topic: Temperance
Source: The Biglow Papers (first series, no. VII, st. 9)
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The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed;
Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod,
Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to
God.
Topic: Treason
Source: On the Capture of Certain Fugitive Slaves near Washington
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The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
Topic: Truth
Source: None
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