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Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Rest is by no means a waste of time.
Do what you will, only do something.
We profit little by books we do not enjoy.
Many a blessing has been recognized too late.
Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.
A kind word will give more pleasure than a present.
If you have the least doubt about it, do not marry.
Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.
Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.
When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.
We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them
Time is a trust, and for every minute of it you will have to account.
How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars.
Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.
There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist
A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.
A Cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around.
To be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.
Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.
False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.
However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.
We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee.
There can be no merit in believing something which you can neither explain nor understand.
Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.
Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.
To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.
Exercise of the muscles keeps the body in health, and exercise of the brain brings peace of mind.
It always seems to be raining harder than it really is when you look at the weather through the window.
Try to realize all the blessings you have, and you will find perhaps that they are more than you suppose.
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
The veil is slowly rising, but as regards innumerable questions we must be content to remain in ignorance.
A crowd is not necessarily company, but neither need it necessarily prevent thought or disturb peace of mind.
We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.
Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.
Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.
We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.
The world would be better and brighter if people were taught the duty of being happy as well as the happiness of doing their duty.
Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.
Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much afraid of making a mistake; a man who never makes a mistake will make nothing.
In this world we do not see things as they are. We see them as we are, because what we see depends mainly on what we are looking for.
It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong.
