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But the time came when I awakened from this as from a dream.

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

I seemed to have nothing left to live for.

While I silently ponder on that Change wrought in me, I find no Language equal to it, nor any Means to convey to another a clear Idea of it.

Running in this Road I found many like myself; and we associated in that which is the reverse of true Friendship.

Have none of my Fellow Creatures an equitable Right to any Part which is called mine?

A provision of endless apparatus, a bustle of infinite inquiry and research, or even the mere mechanical labour of copying, may be employed, to evade and shuffle off real labour—the real labour of thinking.

Say not, “I have found the truth,” but rather, “I have found a truth.”

Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

You are good when you strive to give of yourself.

Yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.

We classify too much and enjoy too little.

She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world

It is not always recognized that the work itself is a great educator, and that acute cleverness in the line of work to which he is fitted comes to the worker.

Pride in one's work is aroused as soon as work is functionalized. The moment a man has something to do that he likes to do, and can do well, he takes pride in it.

in the exercise of this high power, we must be ever on our guard, lest we erect our prejudices into legal principles

A good conscience fears no witnesses, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even of solitude.

Not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient; for he that is so, wants nothing.

Where the mind is tinctured with philosophy, there is no place for grief, anxiety, or superfluous vexations.