Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
From William Ellery Channing
No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.
The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
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