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“Thoughts take up no room. When they are right, they afford a portable pleasure, which one may travel with, without any trouble or encumbrance.” quote by Jeremy Collier — Download Open image

“Thoughts take up no room. When they are right, they afford a portable pleasure, which one may travel with, without any trouble or encumbrance.”

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What can be more honorable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience,--to maintain the dignity of our nature,…

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The abuse of a thing is no argument against the use of it.

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True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

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Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect…

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To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so. How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in…

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Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

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A man that loves to be peevish and paramount, and to play the sovereign at every turn, does but blast the blessings of life, and swagger away his own enjoyments; and not to enlarge upon not folly, not to mention the injustice of such a behavior, it is always the sign of a little, unbenevolent temper. It is disease and…

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In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly…

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What sun is there within us that shoots his rays with so sudden a vigor? To see the soul flash in the face at this rate one would think would convert an atheist. By the way, we may observe that smiles are much more becoming than frowns. This seems a natural encouragement to good-humor; as much as to say, if…

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Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

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Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.

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We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.

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There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out in space. That is . . . the distant future, though not so distant as we may have thought. Whoever gains that ultimate position gains control, total control, over the Earth, for the purposes of tyranny…

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Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul will be consigned to eternal torment in the never-ending subterranean barbecue if you fail to follow the whacky edicts of one particular set of puckered dogwhistles or another. You may recall from the great movie Strange…

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It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small…

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For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow…

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So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving God has set before us is not to see if we can endure difficulty. It is to see if we can endure it well. We pass the test by showing that we remembered Him and the commandments He…

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the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life.

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Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get a grip on this town. It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down. But you must stop being so pessimistic, Hannah, and learn…

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She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to volunteer the story, she realized, and she could just as easily choose to say nothing. But he deserved to know. They all deserved it, and Kirra already knew it, and Cammon may have guessed it, because…

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