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" All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene. "
Through
Wiser
Grow
" Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. "
Strength
Conflict
Grow
" Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie. "
Than
Give
Rather
" Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do. "
Exactly
Character
Us
" Error is discipline through which we advance. "
Through
Error
Which
" Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach. "
Conscience
Teach
Own
" Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do. "
Others
Own
Character
" Every man is a volume if you know how to read him. "
Him
Every Man
You
" Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance. "
Ignorance
Knowledge
Nature
" Faith is love taking the form of aspiration. "
Love
Faith
Aspiration
" Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it. "
Perfection
Eyes
Fix
" God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. "
Life
Books
Past
" God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth. "
Truth
Intelligence
Imperfection
" Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life. "
Thought
Soul
Character
" Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. "
Tyranny
Spiritual
Minds
" He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled. "
Will
See
You
" How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success. "
Amiable
How
Happiness
" Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind. "
Kind
Influence
Surface
" It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. "
Men
Great
Thoughts
" It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great. "
Important
Conscience
Great
" It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity. "
Mind
Knowledge
Dignity
" Life has a higher end, than to be amused. "
End
Higher
Life
" No one should part with their individuality and become that of another. "
Individuality
Become
Part
" No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent. "
Knowledge
Influence
Power
" Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost. "
Our
Experience
Lost
" One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography. "
Worth
Anecdote
Biography
" The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought. "
Mind
Meet
Man
" The great hope of society is in individual character. "
Great
Hope
Character
" The home is the chief school of human virtues. "
Home
Virtues
School
" The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven. "
Nature
Life
Communication
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