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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

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All things are only transitory.

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Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

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Love can do much, but duty more.

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

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Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

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A person hears only what they understand.

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Precaution is better than cure.

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

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Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

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In art the best is good enough.

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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

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The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

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To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

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