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" We acquire the strength we have overcome. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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" Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. "
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" Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both. "
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" The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting. "
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" The faith that stands on authority is not faith. "
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" Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults. "
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" There is an optical illusion about every person we meet. "
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" Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are. "
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" We aim above the mark to hit the mark. "
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" It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports. "
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" People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else. "
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" Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none. "
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" A good indignation brings out all one's powers. "
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" Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. "
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" The years teach much which the days never know. "
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" The ancestor of every action is a thought. "
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" Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. "
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Nature
" A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace. "
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Peace
" All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. "
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" Money often costs too much. "
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Too Much
" 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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" Hitch your wagon to a star. "
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" In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. "
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" The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers. "
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" Good men must not obey the laws too well. "
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" Every hero becomes a bore at last. "
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" It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances. "
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" It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. "
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" Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting. "
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