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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
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Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
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One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
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People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
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Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
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There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
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We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
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Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
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For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
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It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
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There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
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People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
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A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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