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" A complete autobiography would indeed be a picture of the outer and inner universe photographed upon one little life's consciousness. For does not the whole world, seen and unseen, go to the making up of every human being? "
Universe
Life
Picture
" A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us. "
Water
Explain
History
" A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest. "
Friend
Mystery
Friendship
" A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much as I am, it is well to have some sort of a ventilator from the interior. "
Alone
Self
Thought
" A man may make a misanthrope of himself, but he is never one by nature. "
May
Never
Nature
" Every phase of our life belongs to us. The moon does not, except in appearance, lose her first thin, luminous curve, nor her silvery crescent, in rounding to her full. The woman is still both child and girl, in the completeness of womanly character. "
Child
Character
Girl
" Everything in nature has its own intrinsic charm, as the work of its Creator's hand; but the chief beauty of the whole lies in its suggested relations to humanity. Things announce and wait for persons. The house would not have been thus beautifully built and furnished, except for an expected tenant. "
Beauty
Work
Wait
" Few parents are aware of the difficulties that beset the minds of the little philosophers and theologians who sit upon their knees or play at their feet; and many a parent could not comprehend the disturbance, if he were aware of it. "
Parents
Play
Sit
" From the first opening of our eyes, it is the light that attracts us. We clutch aimlessly with our baby fingers at the gossamer-motes in the sunbeam, and we die reaching out after an ineffable blending of earthly and heavenly beauty which we shall never fully comprehend. "
Die
Eyes
Light
" Girls especially are fond of exchanging confidences with those whom they think they can trust; it is one of the most charming traits of a simple, earnest-hearted girlhood, and they are the happiest women who never lose it entirely. "
Women
Trust
Think
" God be thanked for the thinkers of good and noble thoughts! It wakes up all the best in ourselves, to come into close contact with others greater and better in every way than we are. "
Way
Thoughts
Good
" I am willing to make any part of my life public, if it will help others. "
My Life
Life
Help Others
" I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough. "
Music
Enough
Fly
" If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it. "
Till
Span
Smile
" If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. "
Inspirational
Cold
You
" I remember how beautiful the Merrimac looked to me in childhood, the first true river I ever knew; it opened upon my sight and wound its way through my heart like a dream realized; its harebells, its rocks, and its rapids, are far more fixed in my memory than anything about the sea. "
Memory
Sea
Heart
" It is one of the most beautiful facts in this human existence of ours, that we remember the earliest and freshest part of it most vividly. Doubtless it was meant that our childhood should live on in us forever. "
Us
Childhood
Beautiful
" Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it. "
Labor
Privilege
Aim
" Let us not depreciate Earth. There is no atom in it but is alive and astir in the all-penetrating splendor of God. From the infinitesimal to the infinite, everything is striving to express the thought of His Presence with which it overflows. "
Earth
Thought
Us
" Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good. "
Plant
Sunshine
Best
" No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment. "
Escape
Scenery
Nature
" One mistake with beginners in writing is, that they think it important to spin out something long. It is a great deal better not to write more than a page or two, unless you have something to say, and can write it correctly. "
Long
Great
Mistake
" Our relatives form the natural setting of our childhood. We understand ourselves best and are best understood by others through the persons who came nearest to us in our earliest years. "
Understand
Us
Best
" Religion is life inspired by Heavenly Love; and life is something fresh and cheerful and vigorous. "
Cheerful
Love
Religion
" Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality. "
Rich
Poor
Own
" Some of us must wait for the best human gifts until we come to heavenly places. Our natural desire for musical utterance is perhaps a prophecy that in a perfect world we shall all know how to sing. "
World
Desire
Best
" The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character. "
Money
Manhood
Character
" The first real unhappiness I remember to have felt was when some one told me, one day, that I did not love God. I insisted, almost tearfully, that I did; but I was told that if I did truly love Him I should always be good. I knew I was not that, and the feeling of sudden orphanage came over me like a bewildering cloud. "
Day
Remember
Me
" There is something in the place where we were born that holds us always by the heart-strings. "
Us
Were
Where
" The soul, cramped among the petty vexations of Earth, needs to keep its windows constantly open to the invigorating air of large and free ideas: and what thought is so grand as that of an ever-present God, in whom all that is vital in humanity breathes and grows? "
Soul
Ideas
Free
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