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When toward the Devil's Hose we tread, Woman's a thousand steps behind.
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Lose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or dream of doing, begin it! Boldness has power, genius, and magic in it. Begin it now.
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Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity.
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Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.
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Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.
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Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.
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The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.
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Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker; but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.
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Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.
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To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which we appropriate what we can and what is suitable to us.
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If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
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Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.
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Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.
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When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.
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Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.
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None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.
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Es gibt kein äußeres Zeichen der Höflichkeit, das nicht einen tiefen sittlichen Grund hätte. Die rechte Erziehung wäre, welche dieses Zeichen und den Grund zugleich überlieferte.
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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.
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Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.
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Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
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All our knowledge is symbolic.
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I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked.
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Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?
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The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of it in all its appliances, we must study it on its own account, independently of any special application.