Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
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Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
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Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
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