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The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green[][]
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.[][]
Alas! while the body stands so broad and brawny, must the soul lie blinded, dwarfed, stupefied, almost annihilated? Alas! this was, too, a breath of God, bestowed in heaven, but on earth never to be unfolded![][]
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. [][]
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.[][]
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.[][]
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.[][]
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.[][]
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.[][]
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.[][]
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.[][]
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