The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.
John Lancaster Spalding
The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.
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Do definite good first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.
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Leave each one his touch of folly it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.
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As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.
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Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.
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As the savages whom we have instructed are ready when left to themselves to return to their ancestral mode of life, so our young people quickly forget what they have learned at school, and sink back into the commonplace existence from which a right education would have saved them.
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True readers.. Are ready to go through a whole volume, if there be but hope of finding in it a single genuine thought or the mere suggestion even of a truth which has some fresh application to life.
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Drunkards and sensualists have become heroes and saints; but sluggards have never risen to the significance and worth of human beings. Sloth enfeebles the root of life, and degrades more surely, if less swiftly, than the sins of passion.
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The best book is but the record of the best life.
The zest of life lies in right doing, not in the garnered harvest.
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We neglect the opportunities which are always present, and imagine that if those that are rare were offered, we should put them to good use. Thus we waste life waiting for what if it came we should be unprepared for.
The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to which the senses do not lead.
If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.
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When we have attained success, we see how inferior it is to the hope, yearning and enthusiasm with which we started forth in life's morning.
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