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Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

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