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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

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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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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

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Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

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The years teach us much, which the days never knew.

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Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than ...more

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Good-bye proud world! I'm going home Thou are not my friend I am not thine.

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Self-command is the main elegance.

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

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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

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Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can neve...more

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It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much but I am my own comedy and tragedy.