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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. Peace

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To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch of a redeemed social condition; to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.

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They, that unnamed "they," they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up-and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.

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Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.

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Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

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We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.

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Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none. We wake and find ourselves on a st...

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Men who for truth and honor's sake Stand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep, Who dare while others fly... They build a nation's pillars deep And lift them to the sky.

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Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which any thing more than an approximate solution can be had...

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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

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Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature. These are his becoming draperi...

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

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There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and y...

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If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.

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The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.

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You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

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There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees. Our globe seen by God is a transpare...

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What lies behind ourselves and what lies ahead of ourselves are small matters compared to what lies within ourselves.

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There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into...

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You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.

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