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I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is.

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The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.

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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

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A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.

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Books are for nothing but to inspire

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When the gods come among men, they are not known.

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Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train.

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A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.

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I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested, - "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil.'

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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

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Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.

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We expect a great man to be a good reader.

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What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.

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Life only avails, not the having lived.

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It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.

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Only by the supernatural is a man strong--only by confiding in the divinity which stirs within us. Nothing is so weak as an egotist--nothing is mightier than we, when we are vehicles of a truth before which the state and the individual are alike ephemeral.

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In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.

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Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality; in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole an

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Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers.

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Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

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