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[84]

Gerald Massey

"Friendly praise is somewhat
like a warm bath, -- apt to enervate,
especially if we stay in too long;
but friendly censure is like a
cold bath, bracing & healthful,
though we are always glad to get
out of it"

I have known men
and women, in the very worst
circumstances, to whom heroism
seemed a heritage, and to be
noble a natural way of living;
But they were so in spite of
their poverty, not because of it"

[85]

Sartor Resartos

No man who has once heartily
& wholly laughed, can be al-
together irreclaimably bad --

Cast forth thy art, thy
word into the everliving,
everworking universe; it is a
seed grain that cannot
die, unnoticed to day, it
will be found flourishing
as a banyan-grove (perhaps alas, a hemlock-forest)
after a thousand years --