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Rh Be not afraid of enthusiasm; you need it; you can do nothing effectually without it. —.

Depend upon it, my younger brethren, the bright, self-sacrificing enthusiasms of early manhood are among the most precious things in the whole course of human life. —.

What a wretched and apostate state is this! To be offended with excellence, and to hate a man because we approve him! The condition of the envious man is the most emphatically miserable; he is not only incapable of rejoicing in another's merit or success, but lives in a world wherein all mankind are in a plot against his quiet, studying their own happiness and advantage. —.

It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers. —.

If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world. —.

This is eternal life; a life of everlasting love, showing itself in everlasting good works; and whosoever lives that life, he lives the life of God, and hath eternal life. —.