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/ page 662 of 1205 /If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
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If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?
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Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
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Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not.
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Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
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As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
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What is once well done is done forever.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
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To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.
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What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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