Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world. "

Related Quotes:

" I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men. "

" Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. "

" Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. "

" But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. "

" I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out. "

" We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything. "

" Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night. "

" There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. "

" The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions. "

" Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder. "

" Excessive literary production is a social offense. "

" I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. "

" No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. "

" It is never too late to be what you might have been. "

" No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty. "

" It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us. "

" Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. "

" Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries. "

" Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. "

" When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion. "

" Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet. "

" What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other? "

" It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view. "

" No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. "

" Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face. "

" People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate. "

" Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. "

" There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. "

" Consequences are unpitying. "

" Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas. "