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Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

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Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

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The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, o...more

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Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new powe...more

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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

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

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To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates o...more

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God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

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A wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interests than it is theirs to find his weak point.

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I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know ...more

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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

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The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.