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| Quote #1: | "Music is well said to be the speech of angels." |
| Quote #2: | "What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books." |
| Quote #3: | "Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness." |
| Quote #4: | "No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men." |
| Quote #5: | "I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." |
| Quote #6: | "It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe." |
| Quote #7: | "Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come." |
| Quote #8: | "Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with." |
| Quote #9: | "A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you." |
| Quote #10: | "If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it." |
| Quote #11: | "A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men." |
| Quote #12: | "Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time." |
| Quote #13: | "A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one." |
| Quote #14: | "Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books" |
| Quote #15: | "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." |
| Quote #16: | "Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether." |
| Quote #17: | "Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity." |
| Quote #18: | "If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt." |
| Quote #19: | "Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can." |
| Quote #20: | "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand." |
| Quote #21: | "Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." |
| Quote #22: | "Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die." |
| Quote #23: | "One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities." |
| Quote #24: | "Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt." |
| Quote #25: | "The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity." |
| Quote #26: | "That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy." |
| Quote #27: | "Enjoy things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is." |
| Quote #28: | "Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time." |
| Quote #29: | "Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts." |
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