“Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.”
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The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.
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Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
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I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
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If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
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I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.
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