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17 Hamilton Wright Mabie Quotes & Sayings
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17 Hamilton Wright Mabie Quotes & Sayings
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Born: 13 December 1846. Died: 31 December 1916 |
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Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
Blessed
Season
Whole world
Love
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Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
Afraid
Opposition
Kite rises
Wind
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Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing for - life by keeping eyes, mind and heart open to nature, men, books, experience - and what he gathers serves him at unexpected moments in unforeseen ways.
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Lost upon
Growth
Wasted
One
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To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
Quiet mind
Possess
Calm
Spirit
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Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
Genius
Falls short
Actuality
Human life
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A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
Man
Never
Idle
Advantage
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A cottage will hold as much happiness as would stock a palace.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
Cottage
Hold
Much happiness
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Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary.
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Genius
Overflowing vitality
Fertilize
Nature
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The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
Question
Settle
Time
Influence
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The test of friendship is its fidelity when every charm of fortune and environment has been spent away, and the bare, undraped character alone remains; if love still holds steadfast, and the joy of companionship survives in such an hour, the fellowship becomes a beautiful prophecy of immortality.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
Test
Friendship
Fidelity
Fortune
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There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a man's character more fully than the spirit in which he bears his limitations.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
Kind
Life
Sweetness
Strength
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Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for the purpose of progress.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
Real freedom
Mastery
Knowledge
Historic conditions
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The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
Germs
Truth
Ripe moment
Answers
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Then the maiden climbed into a tree, and, seating herself in the branches, began to knit.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
The maiden
Climbed
Branches
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Of the race, untrammelled by the necessity of rigid adherence to the fact. The myths record the earliest attempt at an explanation of the world and its life; the fairy tale records the free and joyful
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Race
Untrammeled
Rigid adherence
Fact
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Now at the end of a long avenue, but when he turned to, look for his followers not one was to be seen; the woods had closed instantly upon him as he had passed through. He was entirely alone, and utter
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End
Long avenue
Followers
Seen
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On every side were stretched the bodies of men and animals apparently lifeless.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
Every side
Stretched
Men
Animals
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Hamilton Wright Mabie Quotes & Sayings