“What you admire in others will develop in yourself. Therefore, to love the ordinary in any one is to become ordinary, while to love the noble and the lofty in all minds is to grow into the likeness of that which is noble and lofty.”
Source: Your Forces and How to Use Them (1912), Chapter 8, p. 126–127
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