“Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.”
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Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.
Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us and surely it is a good haven to sail for.
