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I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Make the most of your regrets never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.