The Poetry of the Orient
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Source: The Solitudes of Nature and of Man; or, The Loneliness of Human Life
Source: The Solitudes of Nature and of Man; or, The Loneliness of Human Life
Source: The Solitudes of Nature and of Man; or, The Loneliness of Human Life
Source: The School of Life
“False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.”
“Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.”
“The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern.”
Source: The Poetry of the Orient
“God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.”
Source: The Poetry of the Orient
Source: The Poetry of the Orient
“The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.”
“Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire.”
“A fretful fancy is constantly flinging its possessor into gratuitous tophets.”
“God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others.”
Source: The Solitudes of Nature and of Man, Or, The Loneliness of Human Life
“Keep your working power at its maximum.”
Source: The School of Life
“There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty.”
“Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.”
“Reserve may be pride fortified in ice; dignity is worth reposing on truth.”
“Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor.”
“The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe.”
“He who is master of all opinions can never be the bigot of any.”
Source: The Solitudes of Nature and of Man, Or, The Loneliness of Human Life
“The flower which we do not pluck is the only one which never loses its beauty or its fragrance.”
“Ah, could the soul, like the body, have a mirror! It has,--a friend.”
“True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.”
“How sublime is the audacious tautology of Mohammed, God is God!”
“The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.”
“Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.”
“A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.”