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Rh The highest life is a broken column; the fairest life, a tarnished gem; the richest life, an unripened fruit. —.

This earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty. —.

This is life's greatest moment, when the soul unfolds capacities which reach beyond earth's boundaries. —.

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A beautiful literature springs from the depth and fullness of intellectual and moral life, from an energy of thought and feeling, to which nothing, as we believe, ministers so largely as enlightened religion. —.

God be thanked for books! they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levelers. They give to all who will faithfully use them the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race. —.