Anger is self-immolation.
Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.
Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.
Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.
Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.
It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.
It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
No one ever fell under the burden of the day; it is only when the burden of tomorrow is added that the load becomes unbearable.
The essential tendency of life is toward happiness... Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.
The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.
There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.
Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.
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