Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.
From Arthur Helps
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.
Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
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