There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTo the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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