"We live in deeds

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest:
Lives in one hour more than in years do some
Whose fat blood sleeps as it slips along their veins.
Life's but a means unto an end; that end,
Beginning, mean, and end to all things -- God.
The dead have all the glory of the world."

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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

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"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him."

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"For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will."

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"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."

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