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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

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All diseases run into one, old age.

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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

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To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

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The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

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Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.

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We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

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Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

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Hitch your wagon to a star.

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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

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Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

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Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

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