Donald G. Mitchell

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• But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties. Anxieties
• The future is wider than vision, and has no end. End
• There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry. Energy
• I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by blossoms than by… Better
• In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure heart. Consciousness
• You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities. Capacities
• Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is… Dream
• Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes… Atmosphere
• The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over… Any
• I care not how worldly you may be: there are times when all distinctions seem like dust, and when at the graves of the great… All
• Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the est in your chosen… Almost Automatically
• I thank Heaven every summer's day of my life, that my lot was humbly cast within the hearing of romping brooks, and beneath the shadow… Beneath
• No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams. Blind
• The way of a man's heart will be foreshadowed by what goodness lies in him - coming from above, and from around; but a way… Coming

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