I must study alone, as I am condemned to do every thing alone, I believe, in this life.
From Dorothea Dix
My happiest hours are spent in school, surrounded by those I hope to benefit.
I was early taught by sorrow to shed tears, and now when sudden joy lights up, or any unexpected sorrow strikes my heart, I find it difficult to repress the full and swelling tide of feeling.
I worship talents almost. I sinfully dare mourn that I possess them not.
I would be cautious in embracing or rejecting doctrines. Had they been essential to our salvation, they would have been more explicitly declared in the Gospels, where we are so well taught the practice of every good word and work.
There is, I think, great difficulty in writing of one's self: it is almost impossible to present subjects where the chief actor must be conspicuous and not seem to be, or really be, egotistical.
As you have learnt something of time, value and make a proper use of it. Once past, it knows no return; how necessary, then, that you spend it in improving your mind and fitting it for future happiness and usefulness.
Think how slow would be your progress in learning without printed books: you could study only manuscripts, and those necessarily must be very few in number. Learn from this to value your books, and always handle them with care.
Those who do wrong very often think others are censuring them, when they are not even thought of.
By all means, have you give great attention to your arithmetic, as its advantages are so many and important.
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