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What is reading, but silent conversation.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart. -Walter Savage Landor.

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

Thou breathing dial! since thy day began The present hour was ever mark'd with shade.

Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.