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The years teach much which the days never know.

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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

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There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

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We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

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Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

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The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

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Leave no stone unturned.

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

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Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

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No one who lives in error is free.

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Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

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The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

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