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Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
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The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by…
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If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he…
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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him,…
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A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps…
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We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
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So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted…
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We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is…
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The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the…
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Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.
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Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a…
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By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of…
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Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.
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When the devil grows old he turns hermit.
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You cannot succeed by yourself. It's hard to find a rich hermit.
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Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated…
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