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«Women are happier in the love they inspire than in that which they feel; men are just the contrary»
«Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.»
«To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being»
«To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you»
«Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.»
«The great end in religious instruction, is not to stamp our minds upon the young, but to stir up their own; not to make them see with our eyes, but to look inquiringly and steadily with their own; not to give them a definite amount of knowledge, but to inspire a fervent love of truth; not to form an outward regularity, but to touch inward springs; not to bind them by ineradicable prejudices to our particular sect or peculiar notions, but to prepare them for impartial, conscientious judging of whatever subjects may be offered to their decision; not to burden memory, but to quicken and strengthen the power of thought.»
«The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [Are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.»
«The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.»
«To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though not easy, is the work of divine man»
«When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.»

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