John Sterling may refer to:
Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.
Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.
Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.
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Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it.
There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.
The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.
Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.
Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.
Like earth, awake, and warm, and bright With joy the spirit moves and burns; So up to thee! O Fount of Light! Our light returns.
Man is a substance clad in shadows.
An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.
Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.
Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.
Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.
One dupe is as impossible as one twin.
Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.
Compliments are only lies in court clothes.
Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.