Hamilton Mabie
Hamilton Mabie
Hamilton Wright Mabie, A.M., L.H.D., LL.D.was an American essayist, editor, critic, and lecturer...
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The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.
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Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing for life. By keeping eyes, mind, and heart open to nature, men, books, experience, and what he gathers, serves him at unexpected moments, in unforeseen
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New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights
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To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.