All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
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Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.
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Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
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Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.
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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
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Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
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Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
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God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
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Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
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How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
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It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
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Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
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The home is the chief school of human virtues.
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The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
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The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
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The world is governed by opinion.
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We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
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