Volume Ii Part 30 (1/2)

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DANGER IN ADMIRATION.-From excessive admiration for the virtues of others one can lose the sense of one's own, and finally, through lack of practice, lose these virtues themselves, without retaining the alien virtues as compensation.

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USES OF SICKLINESS.-He who is often ill not only has a far greater pleasure in health, on account of his so often getting well, but acquires a very keen sense of what is healthy or sickly in actions and achievements, both his own and others'. Thus, for example, it is just the writers of uncertain health-among whom, unfortunately, nearly all great writers must be cla.s.sed-who are wont to have a far more even and a.s.sured tone of health in their writings, because they are better versed than are the physically robust in the philosophy of psychical health and convalescence and in their teachers-morning, suns.h.i.+ne, forest, and fountain.

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DISLOYALTY A CONDITION OF MASTERY.-It cannot be helped-every master has but one pupil, and _he_ becomes disloyal to him, for he also is destined for mastery.

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NEVER IN VAIN.-In the mountains of truth you never climb in vain. Either you already reach a higher point to-day, or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher to-morrow.

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THROUGH GREY WINDOW-PANES.-Is what you see through this window of the world so beautiful that you do not wish to look through any other window-ay, and even try to prevent others from so doing?

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A SIGN OF RADICAL CHANGES.-When we dream of persons long forgotten or dead, it is a sign that we have suffered radical changes, and that the soil on which we live has been completely undermined. The dead rise again, and our antiquity becomes modernity.

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