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For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.

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When man to man shall be friend and brother.

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

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By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us.

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The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood.

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He drew a circle that shut me out Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout But love and I had the wit to win; We drew a circle that took him in.

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Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

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I have felt it like a glory in my heart.

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Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!

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There is a destiny that makes us brothers; None goes his way alone; All that we send into the lives of others Comes back into our own.

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

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Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

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Pa-ta Shan-jen (A painter who watched Ming fall)...

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Blotting the sun Stinging the eyes. The hot seeds steam underground still alive.

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Again the ancient, meaningless Abstractions of the educated mind.

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All honor to him who shall win the prize,'The world has cried for a thousand years;But to him who tries and fails and dies,I give great honor and glory and tears.

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If there be any truer message of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

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Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things; in short; whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you; however innocent it may be in itself.

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