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To be great is to be misunderstood

Fear is an instructor of great sagacity and the herald of all revolutions.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.

The higher the style we demand of friendship, of course the less easy to establish it with flesh and blood.

What a perpetual disappointment is actual society, even of the virtuous and gifted!

Though slowly and with pain, the objects of the affections change, as the objects of thought do.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines

The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.

If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier.

The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds.

The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.

We say so because we feel that what we love is not in your will, but above it.

Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfilments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.

The soul environs itself with friends that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society.

Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the tough fibre of the human heart.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide

A mind might ponder its thought for ages and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.

Thus even love, which is the deification of persons, must become more impersonal every day.