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In this the Endowments of Men are so employed, that the Friend and the Governor are united in one, and oppressive Customs come to an End.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

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.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

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

Work is love made visible.

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

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

You are good when you strive to give of yourself.

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

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

I don’t know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in 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.

It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.

In time, the most stubborn grief will leave us, if in prudence we do not leave that first.

How many casualties and difficulties are there that we dread as insupportable mischiefs, which, upon farther thoughts, we find to be mercies and benefits?

Our destiny in the midst of change will rest on the unchanged character of our people, and on their faith.

Of Severus, my brother, I learned to love my kinsmen, to love truth, to love justice.

if you see that anything is within man's power, and part of his proper work, conclude that you also may attain to it

Fire and water themselves, to use a common expression, are not of more universal use than friendship.

This ripeness is so delightful to me, that, as I approach nearer to death, I seem as it were to be sighting land, and to be coming to port at last after a long voyage.

You must make up your mind to steady and earnest work. You must be content to get on slowly if you only get on thoroughly.