Marriage is a great responsibility. Do not trust altogether to, or be beguiled by, the eye, for marriages are not to be contracted by the hands and eye, but with reason and the heart.
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Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.John Lubbock
Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.
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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
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Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of surprise, if some day when I am alone in the woods one of the trees were to speak to me
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We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.
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It is indeed astonishing how many great men have been poor.
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