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We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.
– Winston Churchill
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is a human owl, vigilant in darkness, and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
– Henry Ward Beecher
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a "but".
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
