Charles Caleb
Charles Caleb
done literature harm
When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.
real evil lasts
There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.
life distance journey
Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.
inspirational depressing adversity
All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.
opportunity men often-is
Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.
rising-in-the-morning years rising-up
Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not only enables us to enjoy more of existence in the same time, but increases also the measure.
ambition mind firsts
Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness.
pride men becoming
There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
angel pride men
Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.
knowledge pay despise
To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
pride keepers
Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.
pride self attractive
Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.
happiness wine emotional
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
rain sea people
Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.