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Childhood Is Like A Mirror, Which Reflects In After Life The Images First Presented To It.

Imitation Is For The Most Part So Unconscious That Its Effects Are Almost Unheeded, But Its Influence Is Not The Less Permanent On That Account. It Is Only When An Impressive Nature Is Placed In Contact With An Impressionable One That The Alteration In The Character Becomes Recognizable. Yet Even The Weakest Natures Exercise Some Influence Upon Those About Them. The Approximation Of Feeling, Thought, And Habit Is Constant, And The Action Of Example Unceasing.

Character Is Undergoing Constant Change, For Better Or For Worse--either Being Elevated On The One Hand, Or Degraded On The Other.

Commonplace Though It May Appear, This Doing Of One's Duty Embodies The Highest Ideal Of Life And Character. There May Be Nothing Heroic About It; But The Common Lot Of Men Is Not Heroic.

If Character Be Irrecoverably Lost, Then Indeed There Will Be Nothing Left Worth Saving.