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Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

If one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a wearer of new clothes.

A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook.

It's not enough to be busy. The question is: What are we busy about?

The heart is forever inexperienced.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation . . . . A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.