Post #2908

There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.
—Ovid

Post #2907

It is well to learn from the misfortunes of others what should be avoided.
—Publius Syrus

Post #2906

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
—Hosea Ballou

Post #2905

Wherever the speech is corrupted the mind is also.
—Seneca

Post #2904

Ethics may be defined as the obligations of morality.
—Lajos Kossuth

Post #2903

One deviates to the right, another to the left; the error is the same with all, but it deceives them in different ways.
—Horace

Post #2902

Those who refuse the long drudgery of thought, and think with the heart rather than the head, are ever the most fiercely dogmatic in tone.
―Peter Bayne

Post #2901

The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves; the impatience, the crossness, the faultfinding of men, who, full of morbid influences, are unhappy themselves, and throw the cloud of their troubles like a dark shadow upon others, teach us what eminent duty there is in health.
―Henry Ward Beecher

Post #2900

To a poet nothing can be useless.
—Samuel Johnson

Post #2899

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
—William Shakespeare

Post #2898

Genius may conceive, but patient labor must consummate.
—Horace Mann

Post #2897

A Persian philosopher, being asked by what method he had acquired much knowledge, answered, “By not being prevented by shame from asking questions where I was ignorant."

Post #2896

What is all knowledge, too, but recorded experience, and a product of history; of which, therefore, reasoning and belief, no less than action and passion, are essential materials?
—Thomas Carlyle

Post #2895

Knowledge always desires increase: it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.
—Samuel Johnson

Post #2894

Those only who know little, can be said to know anything. The greater the knowledge the greater the doubt.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe