Charles Buxton Quotes

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The rule in carving holds good as to criticism—never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.

Charles Buxton
The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.

Charles Buxton
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Charles Buxton
Success soon palls. The joyous time is, when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.

Charles Buxton
You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Charles Buxton
Women see through and through each other; and often we most admire her whom they most scorn.

Charles Buxton
One of the finest sayings in the language is John Foster's "Live mightily."

Charles Buxton
All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.

Charles Buxton
In one family, all goes by two and two. If a member of it has any interest, he or she will confide it to some one other; but the rest know nothing. In another family, all feel what touches one; nothing is kept dark from the father and mother, brothers and sisters--all share. This family habit is by far the better, it strengthens the tie between the members, and makes the home one home.

Charles Buxton
A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conversation; gregariousness without companionship.

Charles Buxton
In one family, every little plan or question is discussed amid bickering and irritation. In another, without the least effort, every discussion goes on amid perfect peace. This is just as easy, and infinitely more agreeable: only, in many homes it does not happen to be the family habit.

Charles Buxton
All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.

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The fact is - nothing comes, at least nothing good. All has to be fetched.

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Failure means that you would not, or could not, pay for success. Success is a matter of sale. It can (most often) be bought by a large outlay--of hard forethought--of pains--of steadiness--of the golden wisdom coined from experience. But the figure is too high for most of us. We are too poor, or too slothful, to bring the price.

Charles Buxton
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.

Charles Buxton
You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.

Charles Buxton