"Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether."

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"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

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"The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever."

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"There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out."

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"The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong."

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"The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope."

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"The devil has his elect."

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"The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough."

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"No sooner is your ocean filled, than he grumbles that it might have been of better vintage. Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarrelling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: it is even as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves."

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"The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself."

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"Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone."

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"Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer."

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"Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries."

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"If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown."

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"The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything."

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"All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone."

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"Let each become all that he was created capable of being."

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"No violent extreme endures."

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"Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects."

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"What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts?"

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"I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing -- a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil."

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"Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows."

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"To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes."

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"Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man."

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"Society is founded upon cloth."

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"If the cut of the costume indicates intellect and talent, then the color indicates temper and heart."

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"The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."

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"The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then."

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"A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus."

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"Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains."

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"A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder."

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"Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die."

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"Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable."

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"In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government."

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"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."

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"No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men."

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"The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done."

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"But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all."

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"Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!"

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"The heart always sees before than the head can see."

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