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/ page 1132 of 1205 /It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
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I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
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Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
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Simplify, simplify.
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There is no just and serene criticism as yet.
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I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
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Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
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Live the life you've dreamed.
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How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?
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While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
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There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.
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No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
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