Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis quotes

The wise are known by their actions; fame and immortality are ever their attendants.
-- Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis

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Act! the wise are known by their actions; fame and immortality are ever their attendants. Mark with deeds the vanishing traces of swiftrolling time. Let us make happy the circle around us,--be useful as much as we may. For that fills up with soft rapture, that dissolves the dark clouds of the day!
-- Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis

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Courage! even sorrows, when once they are vanished, quicken the soul, as rain the valley.
-- Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis

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Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me.

The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place.

Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.

If the divine Mercy grants him the knowledge of himself, then his adoration will be pure; and, for him, paradise and hell, recompense, spiritual degrees and all created things will be as though God had never created them. He will not accord them any importance, nor will he take them into consideration, except to the extent that it is prescribed by the divine Law and Wisdom. For then he will know Who is the sole Agent.

Someone who seeks to travel the path of Allah should begin with a sound repentance from all his sins.

When the inward is good the outward is also inevitably so, for the outward always follows the inward, whether good or evil.

The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Dream, Dream Dream Dreams transform into thoughts And thoughts result in action.

Dreams grow holy put in action.