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A Clear Thought, A Pure Affection, A Resolute Act Of A Virtuous Will, Have A Dignity Of Quite Another Kind, And Far Higher Than Accumulations Of Brick And Granite And Plaster And Stucco, However Cunningly Put Together.

[peace] Is The Highest And Most Strenuous Act Of The Soul, But An Entirely Harmonious Act, In Which All Our Powers And Affections Are Blending In A Beautiful Proportion, And Sustain And Perfect One Another. It Is More Than The Silence After Storms. It Is As The Concord Of All Melodious Sounds ... An Alliance Of Love With All Beings, A Sympathy With All That Is Pure And Happy, A Surrender Of Every Separate Will And Interest, A Participation Of The Spirit And Life Of The Universe.... This Is Peace, And The True Happiness Of [humanity].

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.

Reading Is The Royal Road To Intellectual Eminence...truly Good Books Are More Than Mines To Those Who Can Understand Them. They Are The Breathings Of The Great Souls Of Past Times. Genius Is Not Embalmed In Them, But Lives In Them Perpetually.

To Live Content With Small Means; To Seek Elegance Rather Than Luxury, And Refinement Rather Than Fashion; To Be Worthy, Not Respectable, And Wealthy, Not Rich; To Listen To Stars And Birds, Babes And Sages, With Open Heart; To Study Hard; To Think Quietly, Act Frankly, Talk Gently, Await Occasions, Hurry Never; In A Word, To Let The Spiritual, Unbidden And Unconscious, Grow Up Through The Common - This Is My Symphony.