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If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

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Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.

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The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we should have matter, we must also have a single impulse, one shove to launch the mass and generate the harmony of the centrifugal and centripetal forces.' ... There is no end to the consequences of the act. That famous aboriginal push propagates itself through all the balls of the system, and through every atom of every ball.

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Desire is possibility seeking expression.

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Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.

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[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.

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The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.

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It is about your outlook towards life. You can either regret or rejoice.

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

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Fear, when your friends say to you what you have done well, and say it through; but when they stand with uncertain timid looks of respect and half-dislike, and must suspend their judgement for years to come, you may begin to hope.

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Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

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Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

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Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.

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There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

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A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.

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Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.

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We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.

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Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity.

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We are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God. We do not understand the notes of birds. The fox and the deer run away from us; the bear and tiger rend us. We do not know the uses of more than a few plants, as corn and the apple, the potato and the vine. Is not the landscape, every glimpse of which hath a grandeur, a face of him?

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