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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

Page 721

Samuel Smiles. (1816–1904) (continued)

7197

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Self-Help.

Philip James Bailey. (1816–1905)

7198

Evil and good are God’s right hand and left.

Festus. Proem.

7199

Art is man’s nature; nature is God’s art.

Festus. Proem.

7200

Let each man think himself an act of God,
His mind a thought, his life a breath of God;
And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds,
To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

Festus. Proem.

7201

Men might be better if we better deemed
Of them. The worst way to improve the world
Is to condemn it.

Festus. Scene iv. A Mountain. Sunrise. 1

7202

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Life’s but a means unto an end; that end
Beginning, mean, and end to all things,—God.

Festus. Scene v. A Country Town.

7203

Who never doubted never half believed 2
Where doubt there truth is—’t is her shadow.

Festus. Scene v. A Country Town.

7204

America thou half-brother of the world!
With something good and bad of every land.

Festus. Scene x. Earth’s Surface.

Note 1.
J. R. Lowell: Biglow Papers, II, ii. St. 9.
The surest plan to make a man
Is to think him so. [back]

Note 2.
Tennyson: There lives more faith in honest doubt
Believe me, than in half the creeds. [back]

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