Various
Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.4.3 · 20 votes · 162 reads
Government and Politics
Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.3.7 · 9 votes · 55 reads
Thought and Reason
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.3.4 · 41 votes · 116 reads
Thought and Reason
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.4.7 · 20 votes · 152 reads
Thought and Reason
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.4.5 · 6 votes · 144 reads
Various
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.3.8 · 53 votes · 78 reads
Government and Politics
Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.3.7 · 10 votes · 129 reads
Thought and Reason
The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.3.3 · 31 votes · 105 reads
Art and Culture
The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.4.4 · 32 votes · 173 reads
Feelings
The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.3.8 · 29 votes · 58 reads
Nature
The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.3.1 · 60 votes · 198 reads
Thought and Reason
The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.4.0 · 57 votes · 174 reads
Feelings
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.4.7 · 53 votes · 141 reads
Virtues
The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.3.6 · 39 votes · 149 reads
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