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1. What shadows we are, and what what shadows we pursue!
2. At the close of life the question will be not, how much you have got, but how much you have given; not how much you have won, but how much you have done; not how much you have saved, but how much you have sacrificed; how much you have loved and served, not how much you were honored. ~~Nathan C. Schaeffer~~
3. To have failed is to have striven, to have striven is to have grown.
4. A life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing. Every day we ought to renew our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let us make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is nought.
5. I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look more tempting. In like manner, I make the most of my enjoyments, and pack my troubles in as small a compass as I can.
6. Now, believe me, God hides some ideal in every human soul. ~~Robert Collyer~~
7. I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a prettier shell or a smoother pebble than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
8. Let it be remembered that steadfast application to a fixed aim is the law of a well-spent life.
9. Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in little things.
10. Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.
