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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.

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

To be beautiful and to be calm, without mental fear, is the ideal of nature. If I cannot achieve it, at least I can think it.

Well, it is something to have got here, and the wind may be our friend to-morrow.

Indeed, the ideal story is that of two people who go into love step for step, with a fluttered consciousness, like a pair of children venturing together into a dark room.

Love should run out to meet love with open arms.

Let it be enough for faith, that the whole creation groans in mortal frailty, strives with unconquerable constancy: Surely not all in vain.

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with too much dejection.

Such biographies increase a man's self-reliance by demonstrating what men can be, and what they can do; fortifying his hopes and elevating his aims in life.

With perseverance, the very odds and ends of time may be worked up into results of the greatest value.

hope, which is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for whoso hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.

Thrift does not require superior courage, nor superior intellect, nor any superhuman virtue.

How many casualties and difficulties are there that we dread as insupportable mischiefs, which, upon farther thoughts, we find to be mercies and benefits?

In time, the most stubborn grief will leave us, if in prudence we do not leave that first.

If a man stumbles, it is a good thing to help him to his feet. Every one of us needs a helping hand now and then.

almost any man can do a great deal, if he will, by getting the utmost possible service out of the qualities that he actually possesses

Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every heavy burden light, and equaliseth every inequality.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him.

But what, to our eyes, may seem hopeless failure is often but the dawning of a greater success.

Failure is often the rock-bottom foundation of real success.

Failure is often the turning-point, the pivot of circumstance that swings us to higher levels.

High ideals, noble efforts will make seeming failures but trifles, they need not dishearten us; they should prove sources of new strength.

Life is a successive unfolding of success from failure.