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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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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

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America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

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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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To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

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The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

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A world in the hand is worth two in the bush.

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Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to rig...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