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Some of us must wait for the best human gifts until we come to heavenly places. Our natural desire for musical utterance is perhaps a prophecy that... →
A man may make a misanthrope of himself, but he is never one by nature.
Girls especially are fond of exchanging confidences with those whom they think they can trust; it is one of the most charming traits of a simple... →
One mistake with beginners in writing is, that they think it important to spin out something long. It is a great deal better not to write more than a... →
Whoever claims to understand another person completely, is either entirely ignorant of himself, or else has a nature so small that he can measure it... →
It is one of the most beautiful facts in this human existence of ours, that we remember the earliest and freshest part of it most vividly. Doubtless... →
I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.
There is something in the place where we were born that holds us always by the heart-strings.
A complete autobiography would indeed be a picture of the outer and inner universe photographed upon one little life's consciousness. For does... →
A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so... →
God be thanked for the thinkers of good and noble thoughts! It wakes up all the best in ourselves, to come into close contact with others greater and... →
Our relatives form the natural setting of our childhood. We understand ourselves best and are best understood by others through the persons who came... →
The true idea of a church has not yet been shown the world, a visible Church, I mean, unless it was in the very earliest times; yes, the twelve... →
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