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All sincere and earnest search after truth, even where it fails to reach it, yet, often comes so near to it, that other minds more happily situated may be led, by pointing out its very limitations and errors, to obtain a larger view.

Failure often leads a man to success by arousing his latent energy, by firing a dormant purpose, by awakening powers which were sleeping.

Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough.

All our limitations are in our own minds, the supply is there waiting in vast abundance.

No matter if you have lost your property, your health, your reputation even, there is always hope for the man who keeps a firm faith in himself and looks up.

Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.

When the need comes, there is a power deep within us that answers the call.

It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins.

No one can pursue a worthy object steadily and persistently with all the powers of his mind, and yet make his life a failure.

The present time is the raw material out of which we make whatever we will.

It also makes for contentedness, when things happen against our wish, not to overlook our many advantages and comforts, but by looking at both good and bad to feel that the good preponderate.

This joy of life, this joy of work, in man is absolutely true.

The meaning of the living words that come out of the experiences of great hearts can never be exhausted by any one system of logical interpretation.

We gain our freedom when we attain our truest nature.

It is the function of religion not to destroy our nature but to fulfil it.

It is for our self to know that it must be born anew every moment of its life.

For life is immortal youthfulness, and it hates age that tries to clog its movements--age that belongs not to life in truth, but follows it as the shadow follows the lamp.

Only love is motion and rest in one.

The more man acts and makes actual what was latent in him, the nearer does he bring the distant Yet-to-be.

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

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.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfilments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.

Into the most pitiful and abject it will infuse a heart and courage to defy the world, so only it have the countenance of the beloved object.

A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.