Lord of
Lord of
beautiful truth faces
The face of Truth is not less fair and beautiful for all the counterfeit visors which have been put upon her.
judging veins ears
We may have an excellent ear for music, without being able to perform in any kind; we may judge well of poetry, without being poets, or possessing the least of a poetic vein; but we can have no tolerable notion of goodness without being tolerably good.
thinking ignorant fool
The greatest of fools is he who imposes on himself, and in his greatest concern thinks certainly he knows that which he has least studied, and of which he is most profoundly ignorant.
bullying men calm
True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.
self world thinker
It is the hardest thing in the world to be a good thinker without being a good self examiner.
humor sage tests
It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.
ridiculous ridicule
Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule.
beauty faces architecture
True features make the beauty of a face, and true proportions the beauty of architecture.
happiness men easy
When men are easy in themselves, they let others remain so.
dirt dress presented words
Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should
dew drop falling perhaps produces small words
Words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think
adversity name path poet remember truth whose
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, Adversity is the first path to truth
fly hate mankind
To fly from, need not be to hate mankind
work
What we've got to work on is the rest,