It is, I fear, but a vain ...

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, \'\'Know thyself,\'\' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Men and women are but children of a larger growth.
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.