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The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.
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The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
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The great law of culture - and surely this convention before us now is a great law of culture - is: let each person become all that he was created equal of being. That is what this convention will help to achieve.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
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The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.
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The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
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The Courage that we all prize and seek is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
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That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.
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Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts.
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Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
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Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
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Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into the wilderness, let Congress jargon as it will,can such a form of so-called Government continue for any length of time to torment men with the semblance, when the indispensable substance is not there.
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One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.
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Of America it would ill beseem any Englishman, and me perhaps as little as another, to speak unkindly, to speak unpatriotically, if any of us even felt so. Sure enough, America is a great, and in many respects a blessed and hopeful phenomenon. Sure enough, these hardy millions of Anglosaxon men prove themselves worthy of their genealogy. But as to a Model Republic, or a model anything, the wise among themselves know too well that there is nothing to be said. Their Constitution, such as it may be, was made here, not there. Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions.
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Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
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