“Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.”
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
