He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions such a man is a mere article of the world's furniture a thing moved, instead of a living and moving being an echo, not a voice.
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To curse grief is easier than to bless it, but to do so is to fall back into the point of view of the earthly, the carnal, the natural man. By what has Christianity subdued the world if not by the apotheosis of grief, by its marvelous transmutation of suf.Henri Frederic Amiel
We must dare to be happy, and dare to confess it, regarding ourselves always as the depositories, not as the authors of our own joy.
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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them
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A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
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Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.
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A thousand things advance nine hundred and ninety-nine retreat that is progress.
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