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“Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.”
“No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.”
“Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.”
“Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.”
“Every noble crown is, and on earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.”
“Absence of occupation is not rest, / A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.”
“An idler is a watch that wants both hands; / As useless when it goes as when it stands.”
“Men deal with life as children with their play, / Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.”
“Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows, / Less on exterior things than most suppose.”
“How much a dunce that has been sent to roam / Excels a dunce that has been kept at home.”
“O tell me I yet have a friend, / Though a friend I am never to see.”
“Skins may differ, but affection / Dwells in white and black the same.”
“'Tis Providence alone secures / In every change both mine and yours.”
“Shine by the side of every path we tread / With such a luster, he that runs may read.”