Kindness is the music of Good Will to men, and on this harp the smallest fingers may play heaven's sweetest tunes on earth.
No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness. - Elihu Burritt
No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness.
- Elihu Burritt
All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle,… - Elihu Burritt
All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle,…
Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when least lucid, should take a lesson… - Elihu Burritt
Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when least lucid, should take a lesson…
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and Responsibility of our existence. - Elihu Burritt
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and Responsibility of our existence.
Our minds are like certain vehicles,--when they have little to carry they make much noise about it, but when heavily loaded they run quietly. - Elihu Burritt
Our minds are like certain vehicles,--when they have little to carry they make much noise about it, but when heavily loaded they run quietly.
Kindness is the music of Good Will to men, and on this harp the smallest fingers may play heaven's sweetest tunes on earth. - Elihu Burritt
Knowledge cannot be stolen from us. It cannot be bought or sold. We may be poor, and the sheriff may come and sell our furniture, or drive away our c… - Elihu Burritt
Knowledge cannot be stolen from us. It cannot be bought or sold. We may be poor, and the sheriff may come and sell our furniture, or drive away our c…
Amongst the instrumentalities of love and peace, surely there can be no sweeter, softer, more effective voice than that of gentle, peace-breathing mu… - Elihu Burritt
Amongst the instrumentalities of love and peace, surely there can be no sweeter, softer, more effective voice than that of gentle, peace-breathing mu…
All the beautiful orders of architecture and creations of the pencil, all the conceptions of the beautiful in nature and art and humanity, are invent… - Elihu Burritt
All the beautiful orders of architecture and creations of the pencil, all the conceptions of the beautiful in nature and art and humanity, are invent…
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