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No Man Receives The Full Culture Of A Man In Whom The Sensibility To The Beautiful Is Not Cherished; And There Is No Condition Of Life From Which It Should Be Excluded. Of All Luxuries This Is The Cheapest, And The Most At Hand, And Most Important To Those Conditions Where Coarse Labor Tends To Give Grossness To The Mind.

Perhaps In Our Presence, The Most Heroic Deed On Earth Is Done In Some Silent Spirit, The Loftiest Purpose Cherished, The Most Generous Sacrifice Made, And We Do Not Suspect It. I Believe This Greatness To Be Most Common Among The Multitude, Whose Names Are Never Heard.

Health Is The Working Man's Fortune, And He Ought To Watch Over It More Than The Capitalist Over His Largest Investments. Health Lightens The Efforts Of Body And Mind. It Enables A Man To Crowd Much Work Into A Narrow Compass. Without It, Little Can Be Earned, And That Little By Slow, Exhausting Toil.

O God, Animate Us To Cheerfulness! May We Have A Joyful Sense Of Our Blessings, Learn To Look On The Bright Circumstances Of Our Lot, And Maintain A Perpetual Contentedness

I Call That Mind Free Which Jealously Guards Its Intellectual Rights And Powers, Which Calls No Man Master, Which Does Not Content Itself With A Passive Or Hereditary Faith, Which Opens Itself To Light Whencesoever It May Come, Which Receives New Truth As An Angel From Heaven.