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"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."

"Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory."

"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable."

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to."

"A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute."
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"In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure heart."

"I thank Heaven every summer's day of my life, that my lot was humbly cast within the hearing of romping brooks, and beneath the shadow of oaks."

"Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the "best" in your chosen field, whatever it is."

"You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities."

"Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream."

"No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams."

"The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over half my lifetime, and a world of hope that stretches farther than any flight of sparrows."

"I care not how worldly you may be: there are times when all distinctions seem like dust, and when at the graves of the great you dream of a coming country, where your proudest hopes shall be dimmed forever."

"But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties."
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