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Do you wish always to stray further? See, good lies as near; learn only to grasp happiness, for happiness is always here.
He who is firm in will moulds the world to himself.
What is the true test of character, unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life?
One believes what one wishes to believe.
Human improvement is from within outwards.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Every one of us, whatever our speculative opinions, knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.
Where Nature is sovereign, there is no need for austerity and self-denial.
We are accustomed to see men scorn what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and the beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies.
There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, dignified, and just; it is always in the right, and the faults and errors belong to us. Nature defies incompetence, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure.
On every mountain height is rest.
The world means something to the capable.
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.
What we do not understand we do not possess.
You know not, wandering one, where you are flying to. You will run into an enemy while fleeing from an enemy.
The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; of false, that it lessens.
Remember yourself.
Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life.
There is in every true woman’s heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams, and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
The only way to get the confidence of the world is to show the world that you do not want their confidence.
