Will Christian
Will Christian
love ambition successful
In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
self names ego
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
men trying weakness
Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,--like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
winter night vegetation
Winter is the night of vegetation.
mind lightning brilliant
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
years today live-love
Talk less about the years to come, Live, love labor more today.
evil doe belief
God has created too few unmixed evils to warrant the belief that death is one of them. In all things else in nature, goodness so abounds that we are authorized to infer that it does not stop even at the grave. It is only that her footprints have become invisible.
pushing invisible graves
He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.
inspirational
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
taken loss greatness
What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb suggests, is determinable, not so much by what we have lost, as by what we have left.
eye world miserable
God, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it and pronounced it good; but ascetic pietists, in their wisdom, cast their eyes over it, and substantially pronounce it a dead failure, a miserable production, a poor concern.
positive sadness activity
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
courage desperate cowardice
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
hunger-and-poverty world crime
We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime