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The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.

If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it.

The land is dearer for the sea, The ocean for the shore.

There is something in the place where we were born that holds us always by the heart-strings.

That larger vision is certain to make clear the value in our own lives of service to others.

I am willing to make any part of my life public, if it will help others.

Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.

When April steps aside for May,
Like diamonds all the rain-drops glisten;
Fresh violets open every day:
To some new bird each hour we listen.

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.

Canst thou prophesy, thou little tree, What the glory of thy boughs shall be?

The peach-bud glows, the wild bee hums, and wind-flowers wave in graceful gladness.

He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

Whatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simplicity that is in Christ.

A man may make a misanthrope of himself, but he is never one by nature.

Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty!

Those who plant trees plant hope.

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

I don't own an inch of land, but all I see is mine.

Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality.

Every true friend is a glimpse of God.

The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, - a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses ...

Religion is life inspired by Heavenly Love; and life is something fresh and cheerful and vigorous.

A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.

O Mariner-soul, Thy quest is but begun, There are new worlds Forever to be won.