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If youth is the period of hero-worship, so also is it true that hero-worship, more than anything else, perhaps, gives one the sense of youth.…

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Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by…
If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he…
No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him,…
A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps…
We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted…
We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is…
The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the…
Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.
Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a…
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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First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all… — Elizabeth Bowen
They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed. — James A. Garfield
Then sleep the seasons, full of might; While slowly swells the pod, And rounds the peach, and in the night The mushroom… — Coventry Patmore
More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into… — Twyla Tharp
No condition outside ourselves can create a rut or trap us in it. It's impossible. — Guy Finley
I think a lot of us are not on a path; we're in a rut. We have confused comfort with peace, belief… — Erwin McManus
To keeping silence I resigned My friends would think I was a nut Turning water into wine Open doors would soon be… — Peter Gabriel
I find on songwriting, I really have to work at making sure I'm not imitating myself. You know? Which happens to all… — Andy Wilkinson
We are really in a rut with the three-minute song. You know where it's going to go. If you're trying to get… — Jimmy Webb
So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular? — Ruth Gordon
I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I… — Josh Lucas
People are incapable of stereotyping you; you stereotype yourself because you're the one who accepts roles that put you in this rut… — Eva Mendes

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