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“What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.”
“It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.”
“In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.”
“On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.”
“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.”
“The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.”
“Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.”
“Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.”
“Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.”
“A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.”
“The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.”
“As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.”
“Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.”
“Freedom is the only law which genius knows.”
“To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.”
“Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.”
“Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.”
“One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.”
“Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.”
“If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.”