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“The passive idler of all men in the world is the most difficult to please. Those who do the least themselves are always the severest critics upon the noble achievements of others.”

Elias Lyman Magoon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 345.

Men , World

“Language the most forcible proceeds from the man who is most sincere. The way to speak with power, or to write words that pierce mankind to the quick, is to speak and write honestly.”

Elias Lyman Magoon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 476.

Way , Sincerity

“The kiss of the apostate was the most bitter earthly ingredient in the agonies which Christ endured.”

Elias Lyman Magoon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 14.

Kiss , Christ

“The most profitable and praiseworthy genius in the world is untiring industry.”

Elias Lyman Magoon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 347.

World

“True greatness does not consist so much in doing extraordinary things, as in conducting ordinary affairs with a noble demeanor and from a right motive. It is necessary and most profitable to remember the advice to Titus, "Showing all good fidelity in all things."”

Elias Lyman Magoon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 292.

Motivation

“While the censorious man is most severe in judging others, he is invariably the most ready to repel any animadversions made upon himself; upon the principle well understood in medical circles, that the feeblest bodies are always the most sensitive”

Elias Lyman Magoon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 357.

“In what a delightful communion with God does that man live who habitually seeketh love! With the same mantle thrown over him from the cross — with the same act of amnesty, by which we hope to be saved — injuries the most provoked, and transgressions the most aggravated, are covered in eternal forgetfulness.”

Elias Lyman Magoon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 252.

Love , God , Hope , Forgetting

“Perseverance is the master impulse of the firmest souls, the discipline of the noblest virtues, and the guaranty of acquisitions the most invigorating in their use and inestimable in their worth.”

Elias Lyman Magoon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 450.

Soul , Perseverance

“The imperial heroes who rule over the opinions of their fellow men for good or ill, are victory-organized; they march towards the execution of their purpose, as if they were intent on the conquest of a world. With a bold front and piercing eye, they are repelled by no obstacles, and entertain not the slightest doubt as to a final triumph; days and nights, like their fortune, health, and every thing dear in existence, they consecrate to the success of their particular enterprise. As with hooks of steel, they grapple the most stubborn difficulties, and relax neither hand nor foot so long as there remains one vital energy in their will.”

Elias Lyman Magoon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 451.

Men , Health , World , Success