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The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.
There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.
Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.
To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.
To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all he can do.
Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.
Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.
The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.
It is time we in Scotland put England in its proper place and instead of our leaning on England and taking inspiration from her, we should lean and turn to Europe, for it is there our future prosperity lies.
Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.
There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones.
But the advice was not taken - Johnstone did emigrate to Canada, and did mortgage his pension; and I fear - though I failed to trace his after history - that he suffered in consequence.
Donald had reached its further edge, and could hear the rush of the stream from the deep obscurity of the abyss below, when there rose from the opposite side a strain of the most delightful music he had ever heard.
Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.
Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
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