Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.
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Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.
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For there is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and to have recovered hope.
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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
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It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.
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