Wonderful ''Force of Public Opinion!'' We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of ''influence'' it expects of us, or we shall be lightly…

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Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or...

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or...

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their...

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their...

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at...

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at...

In idleness there is a perpetual despair

In idleness there is a perpetual despair

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow...

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow...

History is the essence of innumerable biographies

History is the essence of innumerable biographies

Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school fees are heavy

Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school fees are heavy

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and...

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and...

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of...

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of...

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Debt is a bottomless sea.

Debt is a bottomless sea.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on...

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on...

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.