"You do not see with the lens of the eye. You seen through that, and by means of that, but you see with the soul of the eye."
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"Do justice to your brother (you can do that, whether you love him or not), and you will come to love him. But do injustice to him because you don't love him, and you will come to hate him."
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"Whenever you see want or misery or degradation in this world about you, then be sure either industry has been wanting, or industry has been in error."
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"Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared and sold in packages ready for use. Truth must be ground for every man by itself out of it such, with such help as he can get, indeed, but not without stern labor of his own."
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"Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one."
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"Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced."
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"Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any. Nothing is visible but the merest outline of dusky shapes. Standing within all is clear and defined; every ray of light reveals an army of unspeakable splendors."
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"But if, indeed, there be a nobler life in us than in these strangely moving atoms; if, indeed, there is an eternal difference between the fire which inhabits them, and that which animates us,--it must be shown, by each of us in his appointed place, not merely in the patience, but in the activity of our hope, not merely by our desire, but our labor, for the time when the dust of the generations of men shall be confirmed for foundations of the gates of the city of God."
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"Hope- the recognition, by true foresight, of better things to be reached here after."
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"The repose necessary to all beauty is repose, not of inanition, nor of luxury, nor of irresolution, but the repose of magnificent energy and being; in action, the calmness of trust and determination; in rest, the consciousness of duty accomplished and of victory won; and this repose and this felicity can take place as well in the midst of trial and tempest, as beside the waters of comfort."
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"The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly."
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"Order and system are nobler things than power."
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"The man who says to one, go, and he goeth, and to another, come, and he cometh, has, in most cases, more sense of restraint and difficulty than the man who obeys him."
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"One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking."
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"At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them."
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"Whenever I did anything wrong, stupid or hard-hearted, and I have done many things that were all three, my mother always said "it is because you were too much indulged.""
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"All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity."
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"Do not think it wasted time to submit yourselves to any influence which may bring upon you any noble feeling."
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"I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE."
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"Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it."
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