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One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

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Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old.

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Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

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Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.

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A man in the wrong may more easily be convinced than one half right.

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Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has faculties silently inviting him thither to endless exertion. He is like a ship in the river; he runs against obstructions on every side but one; on that side all obstruction is taken away, and he sweeps serenely over a deepening channel into an infinite sea.

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Earth laughs in flowers.

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The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.

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Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.

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Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .

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The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

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The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

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My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

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Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must.

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Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape

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You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.

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The time is coming when all men will see that the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering, excluding sanctity, buta sweet, natural goodness, a goodness like thine and mine, and that so invites thine and mine to be and to grow.

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The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose ... We distinguish the announcements of the soul, its manifestations of its own nature, by the term Revelation. These are always attended by the emotion of the sublime. For this communication is an influx of the Divine mind into our mind. It is an ebb of the individual rivulet before the flowing surges of the sea of life. Every distinct apprehension of this central commandment agitates men with awe and delight.

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There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series.

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