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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

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Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

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A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

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Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

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We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

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It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

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Every wall is a door.

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Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

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