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A beautiful literature springs from the depth and fulness of intellectual and moral life, from an energy of thought and feeling, to which nothing, as we believe, ministers so largely as enlightened religion. - [Literature] A friend gives himself to his beloved, and the higher his excellence the richer the gift. - [Friends] A friend is he who sets his heart upon us, is happy with us and delights in us; does for us what we want, is willing and fully engaged to do all he can for us, on whom we can rely in all cases. - [Friends] A man in earnest finds means, or, if he cannot find, creates them-. - [Earnestness] A true friend embraces our objects as his own. We feel another mind bent on the same end, enjoying it, ensuring it, reflecting it, and delighting in our devotion to it. - [Friends] A true friend will appear such in leaving us to act according to our intimate conviction,--will cherish this nobleness of sentiment, will never wish to substitute his power for our own. - [Friends] All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage and grow wiser and more serene. - [Enthusiasm] Be true to your own highest convictions. - [Ideality] Beauty is an all-pervading presence. It unfolds to the numberless flowers of the spring; it waves in the branches of the trees and the green blades of grass; it haunts the depths of the earth and the sea, and gleams out in the hues of the shell and the precious stone. And not only these minute objects, but the ocean, the mountains, the clouds, the heavens, the stars, the rising and setting sun, all overflow with beauty. - [Beauty] Books are the true levellers. They give to all who faithfully use them the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race. - [Books] Christianity is indeed peculiarly fitted to the more improved stages of society, to the more delicate sensibilities of refined minds, and especially to that dissatisfaction with the present state which always grows with the growth of our moral powers and affections. - [Christianity] Compassionate Saviour! We welcome Thee to our world. We welcome Thee to our hearts. We bless Thee for the Divine goodness Thou hast brought from heaven; for the souls Thou hast warmed with love to man, and lifted up in love to God; for the efforts of divine philanthropy which Thou hast inspired; and for that hope of a pure celestial life, through which Thy disciples triumph over death. - [Christ (Saviour)] Courage, considered in itself or without reference to its causes, is no virtue, and deserves no esteem. It is found in the best and the worst, and is to be judged according to the qualities from which it springs and with which it is conjoined. - [Courage] Error soon passes away unless upheld by restraint on thought. History tells us (and the lesson is invaluable) that the physical force which has put down free inquiry has been the main bulwark of the superstitions and illusions of past ages. - [Error] Even in evil, that dark cloud which hangs over the creation, we discern rays of light and hope, and gradually come to see in suffering and temptation proofs and instruments of the sublimest purposes of wisdom and love. - [Evil : Excess] Every man is a volume if you know how to read him. - [Books] Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge; and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance. - [Intellect] Faith is love taking the form of aspiration. - [Faith] Fiction is no longer a mere amusement; but transcendent genius, accommodating itself to the character of the age, has seized upon this province of literature, and turned fiction from a toy into a mighty engine. - [Fiction] Friends are to incite one another to God's works. - [Friends] Friends should not be chosen to flatter. The quality we should prize is that rectitude which will shrink from no truth. Intimacies which increase vanity destroy friendship. - [Friends] Friendship heightens all our affections. We receive all the ardor of our friend in addition to our own. The communication of minds gives to each the fervor of each. - [Friendship] From the loss of our friends teach us how to enjoy and improve those who remain. - [Friends] God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. - [Books] He is to be educated because be is a man, and not because he is to make shoes, nails, and pins. - [Education] Displaying page 1 of 4 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4
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