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• Love can transmute all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys.
• Happiness is the soul's joy in the possession of the intangible.
• We know nothing of the trials, sorrows and temptations of those around us, of pillows wet with sobs, of the life-tragedy that…
• He who thinks all mankind is vile is a pessimist who mistakes his introspection for observation; he looks into his own heart…
• Everything that is great in life is the product of slow growth; the newer, and greater, and higher, and nobler the work,…
• The man who has a certain religious belief and fears to discuss it, lest it may be proved wrong, is not loyal…
• If there is a little sand in the sugar of home happiness, it really seems better to concentrate on the sweetness that…
• Life is a state of constant radiation and absorption; to exist is to radiate; to exist is to be the recipient of…
• Life is not a competition with others. In its truest sense it is a rivalry with ourselves. We should each day seek…
• Man does not drift into goodness...the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination.
• Life is not something to be lived through: it is something to be lived up to. It is a privilege, not a…
• Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of mental habits,…

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