First love is an instinct—at once a gift and a sacrifice.—Every other is a philosophy—a bargain.
—Arthur Sherburne Hardy
Topics: Love
We love the virtues, but do not fall in love with them.—They confirm and nurture love, but after middle age they do not give it birth.
—Arthur Sherburne Hardy
Topics: Love
A wise physician is a John Baptist, who recognizes that his only mission is to prepare the way for a greater than himself—Nature.
—Arthur Sherburne Hardy
Topics: Health
Work is a great blessing; after evil came into the world, it was given as an antidote, not as a punishment.
—Arthur Sherburne Hardy
Topics: Work, Labor
Sorrow is the handmaid of God, not of Satan.—She would lead us, as she did the Psalmist, to say, “Who will show us any good?” that after having said this we may also say with him, “Lord, lift thou the light of thy countenance upon us.”
—Arthur Sherburne Hardy
Topics: Sorrow
Set happiness before you as an end, no matter in what guise of wealth, or fame, or oblivion even, and you will not attain it.—But renounce it and seek the pleasure of God, and that instant is the birth of your own.
—Arthur Sherburne Hardy
Topics: Happiness
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