INFLUENCE
All talk influences more or less. 1017.599
A man is gradually changed into the image of that which he loves. He who hath his
portion in this world grows worldly. When a man gives himself to any pursuit he first
of all moulds it, and then it moulds him. 1372.498
An aroma steals forth from every man’s life, and it is either like the spikenard of the
alabaster box, or like the reeking of a dung-hill. 1854.414
Courage in one man breeds courage in another, and one coward has the contagion of
cowardice about him; many will turn tail when one runs. 2250.159
Much of a man’s character comes from other men. What we are is not all of ourselves.
We are deep in debt to others. Indeed, what man is there upon whom there have not
been a hundred fingers to mould him and a thousand influences to make his plastic
character what it is? 2924.99