That wondrous soul Charoba once possest, Capacious, then, as earth or heaven could hold, Soul discontented with capacity, Is gone (I fear) forever.
Walter Savage Landor
Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
kindness unkindness
Ambition is but avarice on stilts and masked.
ambition avarice
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
gifts man music art earth heaven gift
_Gebir,_ Bk. ii.
soul earth fear heaven forever
We talk on principle, but we act on interest.
talk act interest
We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.
men good mankind bad vain teach worse views
We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.
happy
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age
age youth childhood study adulthood oil
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
ambition fame power rest grave reward
I strove with none; for none was worth my strife; Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art; I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart
worth life nature art fire hands ready
My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
thoughts company
Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one
failure fail worst
The habitude of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional
truth language fear flattery
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good
men happiness happy good goodness
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
men direction lose usefulness begin
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