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Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.

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There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all.

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Nothing is dead: men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out ofthe window, sound and well, in some new and strange disguise.

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This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

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Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. The louder he talked of his honesty, the quicker we counted the silverware.

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The borrower runs in his own debt.

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Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues.

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Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

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Every artist was first an amateur.

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When there is no vision, people perish.

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What goes on around you... compares little with what goes on inside you.

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We are disgusted by gossip; yet it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties.

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By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.

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The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such as we see in the sexual attraction.

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We all need someone who can help us do what we already can.

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The student is to read history actively and not passively.

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You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

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With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.

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Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.

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Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.

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