H.W. Charles Quotes
Making the simple complicated is commonplace making the complicated simple awesomely simple that's creativity.
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field than their own hearts in their closet.
A charge to keep I have A God to glorify: A never-dying soul to save And fit it for the sky.
To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers or both.
Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. It makes it feel needed.
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.
Faith mighty faith the promise sees And looks to that alone Laughs at impossibilities And cries it shall be done.
A talent somewhat above mediocrity shrewd and not too sensitive is more likely to rise in the world than genius which is apt to be perturbable and to wear itself out before fruition.
Those who have few things to attend to are great babblers for the less men think the more they talk.
We all have some taste or other of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering that it was an acquired one.
If you would be known and not know vegetate in a village if you would know and not be known live in a city.
The past cannot be regained although we can learn from it the future is not yet ours even though we must plan for it. ... Time is now. We have only today.
Do not manage as if you had ten thousand years before you. Look you death stands at your elbow make the most of your minute and be good for something while it is in your power.
Do today's duty fight today's temptation do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see and could not understand if you saw them.
The only true time which a man can properly call his own is that which he has all to himself the rest though in some sense he may be said to live it is other people's time not his.
The smallest effort is not lost Each wavelet on the ocean tost Aids in the ebb-tide or the flow Each rain-drop makes some floweret blow Each struggle lessens human woe.
Pure truth like pure gold has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
Wealth ... is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more.
There is no such thing as a long piece of work except one that you dare not start.
Eloquence is the language of nature and cannot be learned in the schools but rhetoric is the creature of art which he who feels least will most excel in.
As a remedy against all ills - poverty sickness and melanchol - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work.
How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work that disagreeable thing is the only way of not suffering in life or at all events of suffering less.
The world goes up and the world goes down And the sunshine follows the rain And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown Can never come over again Sweet wife. No never come over again.
If all the world must see the world As the world the world hath seen Then it were better for the world That the world had never been.
Worry affects the circulation the heart the glands the whole nervous system and profoundly affects the health. You have never known a man who died from overwork but many who died from doubt.
Integrity and blame can never be friends.
God's word is alive, so full of spiritual truth and wisdom that even a single passage can be digested for a lifetime
He was able to sit in silence for long stretches without feeling a need to make small talk.
I am shocked at the attitude of our American troops. They have no respect for death, the courage of an enemy soldier, or many of the ordinary decencies of life.
Science is exploration. The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don't know what's there. We can guess and hope and aim to find out certain things, but we have to expect surprises.
The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.