Abscence makes the heart grow fonder. -Anonymous, (Davison, Potential
Rhapsody)
We do not what we ought,
What we ought not, we do,
And lean upon the thought
That Chance will bring us through. -Matthew Arnold, Empedocles on Etna
Constancy is the foundation of virtues. -Francis Bacon, De Augmentia
Scientiarum Pt. i, bk. vi, sec. 23
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will
be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties. -Francis Bacon, Advancement
of Learning Bk. i
It is sufficiently clear that all things are changed, and nothing really
perishes, and that the sum of matter remains absolutely the same. -Francis
Bacon, De Natura Rerum
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be
chewed and digested;that is some books are to be read only in parts; others to
be read but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence
and attention. Some books may also be read by deputy, and extracts made of them
by others. -Francis Bacon, Essays "Of Studies"
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. -William Blake, Proverbs
of Hell
If you get simple beauty and naught else,
You get about the best thing God invents. -Robert Browning, Fra Lippo Lippi
Nake no little plans: they have no magic to stir men's blood make big
plans, aim hight in hope and work. Daniel H. Burnham
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow'd to taht tender light
Which heaven to gaudy days denies. -George Gordon, Lord Byron, Hebrew
Melodies "She Walks in Beauty"
You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile good.
-Charles Carlson
A good book is the purest essence of a human soul. -Thomas Carlyle, Speech
1840
The world's a scene of changes, and to be Constant, in Nature were
inconstancy. -Abraham Cowley,Inconstancy
Between the mouth and the morsel many things may happen. (Inter os atque
offam multa intervenire posse.) Cato the Censor, "On the Improper Election
Aediles" (Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae Bk. xiii, ch. 18, sec. 1)
Abscence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it
enkindles the great. (L'abscence est a l'amour ce qu'est au feu le vent; it
eteint le petit, il allume le grand.) -Comte De Bussy-Rabutin, Histoire
One joy dispels a hundred cares. -Confucius
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man things of comfort.
-Confucius
Without music, life is a journey through a desert. -Pat Conroy
Change is inevitable in a progressive country. Change is constant. -Benjamin
Disraeli, Speech October 20,
Beware the fury of a patient man. -John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel
Pt. I
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. -Thomas A. Edison
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight --it's the
size of the fight in the dog. -Dwight Eisenhower
Belief consist in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in
denying them. -Ralph Waldo Emerson,
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for
everything you gain, you lose something. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hitch your wagon to a star. Let us not fag in paltry works which serve our
pot and bag alone. Let us not lie
Some books leave us free and some books make us free. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society
and Solitude
Prevention is better than cure. -Erasmus
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. -Euripides, Pirithous
Great actions speak great minds. -John Fletcher, The Prophetess Act
ii, sc. 3
But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
-Benjamin Franklin, Writings
We may be personally defeated, but our principles never. -William Lloyd
Garrison
I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries
stained with blood I count as of no
We must either find a way or make one. -Hannibal
He that does evil that good may come, pays a toll to the devil to let him
into heaven. -Hare and Charles
True philosophers who are burning with love for truth and learning never see
themselves . . . as wise man,
Always listen to experts. They're tell you what can't be done and why. Then
do it. -Robert Heinlen
Anger is momentary madness. (Ira furor brevis est.) -Horace, Epistles
Bk. i, epis, ii
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. -David Hume, Essays
"Of Tragedy"
No truth appears to me more evident than that beasts are endowed with thought
and reason as well as men.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. -Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, quoted in Molly
Bawn
Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every
preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads,
or you shall learn nothing. -Thomas Henry Huxley
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as
I have found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift
one's position and be bruised in a new place. -Washington Irving, Tales of a
Traveller "To the Reader"
Who longest wait of all surely wins. -Helen Hunt Jackson
I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never
attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I am
satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of
Victory and defeat are each ofht esame price. -Thomas Jefferson
When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred. -Thomas
Jefferson, Writings Vol. xvi
A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health,
and quiet breathing. -John Keats, Endymion Bk. i, I
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"--that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. -John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian
Urn"
Security is mostly a superstitiion. It does not exist in nature life is
either a daring adventure or nothing.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when
all we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about. -Charles
Kingsley
He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself
is more intelligent. He
Nothing under the sun is accidental. -Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Emilia
Galotti Act vi, sc. 3
I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what
his grandson will be. -Abraham Lincoln (Gross, Lincoln's Own Stories)
At first laying down, as a fact fundamental,
That nothing with God can be accidental. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The
Golden Legend Pt. vi
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life
St. 9
The thing we long for, that we are
For one transcendent moment. -James Russel Lowell, Longing
Watch out and guard yourselves from every kind of greed: because a person's
true life is not made up of the
Every day is a fresh opportunity to continue the quest toward out mission.
-Harold McAlindon
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. -Michelangelo, (Emerson, Conduct
of Life "Beauty")
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. -Michelangelo
As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a
reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason
itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. -John Milton, Areopagitica
Sec. 6
Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in
them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do
preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. -John Milton, Areopagitica Sec. 6
We do not inherit the earth from out parents. We borrow it from our children.
-Native American proverb
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have
been only like a boy playing on
'Tis now a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all. -Alexander Pope, An Essay on
Criticism
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. -Proverbs
xv, 1
When a giftedteam dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct
with boldness and effort --it is
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go
together. -John Ruskin, The Two Paths
He who boasts of his descent, praises the deeds of another. (Qui genus jactat
suum, Aliena laudat.) -Seneca, Hercules Furens
I have Immortal longings in me. -William Shakespeare, Anthony and
Cleopatra Act v, sc. 2
There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want; and after
that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. -Logan
Pearsall Smith
You cannot define talent. All you can do is build the greenhouse and see if
it grows. -Willian P. Steven
May the teachings of those
you admire become part of you, so that
you may call upon them.
Remember, those
whose lives you have touched and who have
touched yours are always a part of you,
even if the encounters were less than you
would have wished. It is the content of
the encounter that is more important than
its form. May you not become too
concerned with material matters, but
instead place immeasurable value on the
goodness in your heart. Find time in
each day to see beauty and love in the
world around you. Realize that each
person has limitless abilities, but each
of us is different in our own way. What
you may feel you lavk in one regard may
be more than compensated for in another.
What you feel you lack in the present may
become one of your strengths in the
future. May you see your future as one
filled with promise and possibility.
Learn to view everything as a worthwhile
experience. May you find enough inner
strength to determine your own worth by
yourself, and not be dependent on
another's judgment of your accomplishments.
May you always feel loved. -Sandra Sturtz
What I have learned is but a handful of earth, what is left unlearned is the
Earth itself. -Tamil proverb
Win without boasting. Lose without excuse. -Albert Payson Terhune
A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and forever. -Martin
Farquhar Tupper, Proverbial
Be careful about reading health books. You might die of a misprint. -Mark
Twain
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would
rather have talked. -Mark Twain
Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause. -Voltaire,
A Philosophical Dictionary
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that
reflects it. -Edith Wharton
The thing always happen that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing
makes it happen. -Frank Lloyd
