"Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others."
"Sympathy is in great degree a result of the mood we are in at the moment; anger forbids the emotion. On the other hand, it is easiest taken on when we are in a state of most absolute self-satisfaction."
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Source: Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ”, p.230, Bible Study Steps
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