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32 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.
As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.— filed under Ability
The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.— filed under Belief
The Youth of Washington. Every one of us, whatever our speculative opinions, knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.— filed under Character
Human improvement is from within outwards.— filed under Character
Subjects. Divus Cæsar. Our thoughts and our conduct are our own.— filed under Character
of dedication to the Lord Marquis of Carmarthen. Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.— filed under Courage
Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.— filed under Crime
Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.— filed under Demosthenes
To tell men that they cannot help themand selves is to fling them into recklessness despair.— filed under Despair
In common things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.— filed under Duty
Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.— filed under Equality
Scholar. Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.— filed under Experience
Subjects. Education. Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.— filed under Experience
Subjects. Party Politics. We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.— filed under Experience
Courage. Fear is the parent of cruelty.— filed under Fear
Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.— filed under Ignorance
Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.— filed under Instruction
Justice without wisdom is impossible.— filed under Justice
We live merely on the crust or rind of things.— filed under Life
Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.— filed under Morality
Subjects. Divus Cæsar. The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.— filed under Morality
There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.— filed under Nobility
Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.— filed under Occupations-Law
Subjects. Reciprocal Duties of State and Subject. Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws so far as we can read them.— filed under Occupations-Law
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.— filed under Philosophy
The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.— filed under Reflection
Sketches. The Preacher. P. 215. Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God. S.— filed under Religion
Subjects. Sea Studies. There are at bottom but two possible religions-that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral commandments, and that which grows out of the observation of the material energies which operate in the external universe.— filed under Religion
Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.— filed under Selfishness
Poems. We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.— filed under Solitude
Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.— filed under Truth
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.— filed under Will