Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.
Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.
You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell. What I mean is that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace. This and the confusion of my thoughts, so that I am fit for nothing, is what I mean by your being the ruin of me.
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.
It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.
New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.
There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.
Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.
Change begets change.
Your voice and music are the same to me.
I am what you designed me to be.I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt
The year end brings no greater pleasure then the opportunity to express to you season's greetings and good wishes. May your holidays and new year be filled with joy.
Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.
All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.
I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.
You have been the last dream of my soul.
Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?
For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him.
Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.
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