Few of us have been so exceptionally unfortunate as not to find, in our own age, some experienced … - Philip Gilbert Hamerton

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The stories of past courage. . . can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Few of us have been so exceptionally unfortunate as not to find, in our own age, some experienced friend who has helped us by precious counsel, never to be forgotten. We cannot render it in kind, but perhaps in the fulness of time it may become our noblest duty to aid another as we have ourselves been aided, and to transmit to him an invaluable treasure, the tradition of the intellectual life.

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The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours.

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In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.

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What delights us in the spring is more a sensation than an appearance, more a hope than any visible reality. There is something in the softness of the air, in the lengthening of the days, in the very sounds and odors of the sweet time, that caresses us and consoles us after the rigorous weeks of winter.

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Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author?

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