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Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.

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Whatever you do, you need courage.

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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.

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The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and removing a diseased religion, and making way for truth.

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We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.

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The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.

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The surest poison is time.

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A little integrity is better than any career.

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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

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Power is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their thought; which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the end for which the universe exists, and all its resources might be well applied.

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No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

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The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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The intellect searches out the Absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of affection. The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other, and the exclusive activity of the one generates the exclusive activity of the other. There is something unfriendly in each to the other, but they are like the alternate periods of feeding and working in animals; each prepares and will be followed by the other.

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Everything that is popular, it has been said, deserves the attention of philosophers: and this is for the obvious reason, that although it may not be of any worth in itself, yet it characterizes the people.

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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

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A seashell should be the crest of England, not only because it represents a power built on the waves, but also the hard finish ofthe men. The Englishman is finished like a cowry or a murex.

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All life is a nap. The more naps you take the better.

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There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

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