Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
Richter, Jean Paul
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
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Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
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Prayer purifies; it is a self-preached sermon.
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There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
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Time is a continual over-dropping of moments, which fall down one upon the other and evaporate.
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