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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
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True love is the parent of humility.
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Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.
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In the long run, truth is aided by nothing so much as by opposition.
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May your life preach more loudly than your lips.
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I am a living member of the great family of all souls.
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The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
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Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.
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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
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No punishment is so terrible as prosperous guilt.
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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.
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My highway is unfeatured air, My consorts are the sleepless stars, And men my giant arms upbear My arms unstained and free from scars.
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All that we do outwardly is but the expression and completion of our inward thought. To work effectively, we must think clearly; to act nobly, we must think nobly.
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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
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Be true to your own highest convictions.
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Life has a higher end, than to be amused
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Another powerful principle of our nature, which is the spring of war, is the passion for superiority, for triumph, for power. The human mind is aspiring, impatient of inferiority, and eager for preeminence and control.
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Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.
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One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.
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All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene
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No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.
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Health is the working man's fortune, and he ought to watch over it more than the capitalist over his largest investments. Health lightens the efforts of body and mind. It enables a man to crowd much work into a narrow compass. Without it, little can be earned, and that little by slow, exhausting toil.
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No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
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To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.
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