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Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
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Enjoy things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
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Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.
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Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.
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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
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Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
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Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Biography is the only true history
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Be not a slave of words.
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All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
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Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
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A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one.
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A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
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A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.
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A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
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A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
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A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
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A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a 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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A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
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