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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
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Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.
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Whenever God means to make a man great, he always breaks him in pieces first.
— Charles Spurgeon
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But 'Thou mayest!'! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his…
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The Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in…
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Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Great thoughts alone do not make a man great but great thoughts with corresponding actions.
— Terry Mark
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And you have your choices, And these are what make man great, His ladder to the stars.
— Mumford And Sons
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