"Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you."
"Unmixed praise is not due to any one. It leaves behind a sense of unreality. We can only do justice to a great man by a discriminating criticism. Hero-worship, which paints a faultless monster, whom the world never saw, is like those modern pictures which are a blaze of light without any shadow."
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Source: James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture, lectures”
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