"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."
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"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."
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"Through discipline comes freedom."
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"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers."
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"A friend to all is a friend to none."
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"What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good."
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"Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny."
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"In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds."
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"Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit."
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"First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end."
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"We can't learn without pain."
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"A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies."
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"The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper."
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"Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation."
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"Happiness belongs to the self sufficient."
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"The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful."
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"Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can be cured by time; but hatred cannot. The one aims at giving pain to its object, the other at doing him harm; the angry man wants his victim to feel; the hater does not mind whether they feel or not."
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"The whole is more than the sum of its parts."
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"A friend of everyone is a friend of no one"
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"Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind"
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