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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. | [▲] | [▼] |