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• There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the secret sense of…
• Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
• Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but…
• Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
• In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that…
• He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only…
• Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which…
• Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs…
• Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
• An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity
• He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model and limits infinite power to finite apprehensions.
• Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.

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