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- Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
- One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by…
- Don't be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you've been wounded and you…
- Men exist for each other. Then either improve them, or put up with them.
- Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily
- "Sweep me up and send me where you please." For there I will retain my spirit, tranquil and content, as long as it can feel…
- In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'
- All things are linked with one another, and this oneness is sacred; there is nothing that is not interconnected with everything else. For things are…
- You need to be prepared for firm decisions and action, without losing gentleness towards those who obstruct or abuse you. It's as great a weakness…
- The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it…
- If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth hold all the…
- Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other, to the great…
- When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, make this short speech to yourself: I am getting up now to do the…
- Thanks to the gods I didn't spend much time while growing up with my grandfather's mistress and preserved the flower of my youth, waiting for…
- Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee.
- Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is…
- Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory.
- Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this 'reality' as…
- Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
- Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully…
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