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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. -William Ellery Channing.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Mistake, error, is the discipline through which we advance.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me, If my bark sinks, 'tis to another sea.

Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.

Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

Most joyful let the Poet be; It is through him that all men see.

Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.

Iron hand in a velvet glove.

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.