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/ page 798 of 1205 /Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Error is discipline through which we advance.
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Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
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The world is governed by opinion.
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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.
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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.
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No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
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The home is the chief school of human virtues.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
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It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
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Life has a higher end, than to be amused.
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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
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Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
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