An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
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You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.
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Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.
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A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
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That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly.
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