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The world is governed by opinion.
Knowledge is essential to freedom.
Home - the nursery of the Infinite.
True love is the parent of humility.
Be true to your own highest convictions.
Life has a higher end, than to be amused
Life has a higher end, than to be amused.
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
Error is discipline through which we advance.
The home is the chief school of human virtues.
May your life preach more loudly than your lips.
One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
No punishment is so terrible as prosperous guilt.
Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.
The great hope of society is in individual character
Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.
The great hope of society is in individual character.
I am a living member of the great family of all souls.
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.
Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.
Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.
Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.
A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them.
Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.
Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.
In the long run, truth is aided by nothing so much as by opposition.
Our affections are our life. We live by them; they supply our warmth.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life
No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.
We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.
To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.
Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene
I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
The fewer the voices on the side of truth, the more distinct and strong must be your own.
We never know a greater character unless there is in ourselves something congenial to it.
The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.
What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!
One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.
God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.