To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
There is even a happiness – that makes the heart afraid.
I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.
Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.