The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one’s self a fool the truest heroism is to resist the doubt and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you’ve scowled upon.
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
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All brave men love for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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All brave men love for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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