All higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him for the better discharge of the duties which devolve upon him in the ordinary affairs of life.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.
