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/ page 660 of 1205 /Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
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Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
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Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
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If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
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It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves - sometimes split into quarters - which grind on each other. Not only individuals but states have thus a confirmed dyspepsia.
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All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.
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It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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Being is the great explainer.
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The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
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Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
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I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
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Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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