In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.
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It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.
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Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits.
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Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.
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No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.
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Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.
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The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
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The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
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There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.
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Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.
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