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The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.

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The worst part of an eminent man’s conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.

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There are times when the mirth of others only saddens us, especially the mirth of children with high spirits, that jar on our own quiet mood.

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There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science. But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates.

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There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men’s deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed.

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Heart

Men

There is a great deal we never think of calling religion that is still fruit unto God, and garnered by Him in the harvest. The fruits of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, patience, goodness. I affirm that if these fruits are found in any form, whether you show your patience as a woman nursing a fretful child, or as a man attending to the vexing detail of a business, or as a physician following the dark mazes of sickness, or as a mechanic fitting the joints and valves of a locomotive; being honest true besides, you bring forth truth unto God.

Children

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Nursing

There is a world of science necessary in choosing books. I have known some people in great sorrow fly to a novel, or the last light book in fashion. One might as well take a rose-draught for the plague! Light reading does not do when the heart is really heavy. I am told that Goethe, when he lost his son, took to study a science that was new to him. Ah! Goethe was a physician who knew what he was about.

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There is an ill-breeding to which, whatever our rank and nature, we are almost equally sensitive, the ill-breeding that comes from want of consideration for others.

Selfishness

Sensitive

Want

There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

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There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,–fine breeding.

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The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.

The worst part of an eminent man’s conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.

There are times when the mirth of others only saddens us, especially the mirth of children with high spirits, that jar on our own quiet mood.

There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science. But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates.

There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men’s deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed.

There is an ill-breeding to which, whatever our rank and nature, we are almost equally sensitive, the ill-breeding that comes from want of consideration for others.

There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,–fine breeding.

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