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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

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The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough

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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himsel...more

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Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

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Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it ...more

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Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and ...more

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At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all k...more

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No mountain is of any appreciable height to break the curve of the sphere.

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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

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When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is cr...more

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The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

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It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

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For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

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Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

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She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.