Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.
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He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes.Arthur Helps
We should lay up in our minds a store of goodly thoughts which will be a living treasure of knowledge always with us, and from which, at various times, and amidst all the shiftings of circumstances, we might be sure of drawing some comfort, guidance and sympathy.
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Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.
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Choose an author as you choose a friend.
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
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If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.
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