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" The ancestor of every action is a thought. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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" It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all. "
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" We are always getting ready to live but never living. "
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" The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society. "
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" A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. "
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" Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. "
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" A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. "
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" As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way. "
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" The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear. "
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" Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich. "
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" Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence. "
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" We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe. "
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" What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. "
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" We acquire the strength we have overcome. "
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" Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France. "
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" The highest revelation is that God is in every man. "
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Every
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" As we grow old, the beauty steals inward. "
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Old
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" The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance. "
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" What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. "
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" There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere. "
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" Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. "
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" Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. "
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" Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he. "
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" The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence. "
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Best
Effort
" A great man is always willing to be little. "
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" The greatest gift is a portion of thyself. "
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" An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. "
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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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" There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day. "
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" For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind. "
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