anger

atheist

brevity

character

courage

eloquence

flattery

friendship

genius

gray hair

hope

humanity

idleness

individuality

interruption

library

life

love

memory

misery

modesty

music

nation

night

old age

paradise

poverty

prayer

regularity

spring

style

suffering

tear

time

variety

nationality

German

occupation / innovator as

art historian

is most increased by the feeling that one is in the wrong.

What most increases anger is the feeling that one is in the wrong.

is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

is a thing a man never discloses so clearly as when he describes another's.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's

is a virtue of no doubtful seeming; there can be no contradiction, no diversity of opinion, about it.

Courage is a virtue of no doubtful seeming; there can be no contradiction, no diversity of opinion, about it.

is not blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing It and conquering it.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, nut in seeing It and conquering it

is like the light of a soft moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the light of a soft moon, silvering over the evening of life.

is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.

is everywhere to be spared and respected as the root of everything good.

Individuality is everywhere to be spared and respected as the root of everything good.

 lessens woman’s delicacy, and increases man’s.

Love lessens woman’s delicacy, and increases man’s.

 requires not so much proofs, as expressions, of love.

Love requires not so much proofs, as expressions, of love. Love demands little else than the power to feel and to requite love.

, like men, dies oftener of excess than of hunger.

Love, like men, dies oftener of excess than of hunger.

is so little appertaining to our nature,, and happiness so much so, that we in the same degree of illusion only lament over that which has pained us, but leave unnoticed that which has rejoiced us.

Misery is so little appertaining to our nature,, and happiness so much so, that we in the same degree of illusion only lament over that which has pained us, but leave unnoticed that which has rejoiced us.

is like a man in that it too is best when it is the gladdest, and deserves heaven when it enjoys it.

Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it.

is purificatory: it is a self-preached sermon.

Prayer purifies : it is a self-preached sermon.

is my gain; I bow To my heavenly Father’s will. And receive it hushed and still: Suffering is my worship now.

Suffering is my gain; I bow To my heavenly Father’s will. And receive it hushed and still: Suffering is my worship now.

is a continual over-dropping of moments, which fall down one upon the other and evaporate.

Time Is a continual over-dropping of moments, which fall down one upon the other and evaporate.

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