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The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.

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The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.

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Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

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The role of citizen in our democracy does not end with your vote.

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In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.

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Your mistake does not define who you are...you are your possibilities.

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There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.

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Why does the thin grey strand Floating up from the forgotten Cigarette between my fingers, Why does it trouble me?

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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

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Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.

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When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness.

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The sage knows himself, but does not parade. He cherishes himself, but does not praise himself.

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What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed.

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Absolute freedom does not exist; what does exist is the freedom to choose anything you like and then commit yourself to that decision.

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If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are. It shouldn't change you. If you're a jerk, you just get to be a bigger jerk. What fame does is magnify who you are and puts that on a platter for the whole world to see.

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Not only does "orthodox" no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong.

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The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when I am dead.

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The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care

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Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.

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Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.

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