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"The home is the chief school of human virtues."

"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."
Nature

"Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance."

"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."

"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."

"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."

"Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it."

"Every man is a volume if you know how to read him."

"All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene."

"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."

"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."

"Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost."

"It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great."

"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."

"Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie."

"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."

"One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography."

"The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves."

"Faith is love taking the form of aspiration."

"How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success."

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