John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Epictetus. (A.D. c. 50–c. 138) (continued) |
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| Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle. |
| Discourses. Chap. xii. |
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| O slavish man! will you not bear with your own brother, who has God for his Father, as being a son from the same stock, and of the same high descent? But if you chance to be placed in some superior station, will you presently set yourself up for a tyrant? |
| Discourses. Chap. xiii. |
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| When you have shut your doors, and darkened your room, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; but God is within, and your genius is within,—and what need have they of light to see what you are doing? |
| Discourses. Chap. xiv. |
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| No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. |
| Discourses. Chap. xv. |
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| Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind. |
| Discourses. Chap. xvi. |
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| Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan. |
| Discourses. Chap. xvi. |
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| Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder. |
| Discourses. Chap. xvii. |
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| If what the philosophers say be true,—that all men’s actions proceed from one source; that as they assent from a persuasion that a thing is so, and dissent from a persuasion that it is not, and suspend their judgment from a persuasion that it is uncertain,—so likewise they seek a thing from a persuasion that it is for their advantage. |
| Discourses. Chap. xviii. |
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| Practise yourself, for heaven’s sake, in little things; and thence proceed to greater. |
| Discourses. Chap. xviii. |