"You are a little soul carrying around a corpse."
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"It doesn't take much to lose everything, just a little departure from reason"
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"Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new."
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"All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way."
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"We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul."
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"Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you."
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"Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble."
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"If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone."
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"Do not try to seem wise to others."
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"If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother."
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"To get or not to get what we desire can be equally disappointing."
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"You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not."
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"A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care."
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"A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other."
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"Watch yourself as you go about your daily business and later reflect on what you saw, trying to identify the sources of distress in your life and thinking about how to avoid that distress."
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"If you wish to be a writer, write."
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"If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write."
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"Never depend on the admiration of others for self-satisfaction. It is a fact of life that other people, even people who love you, will not necessarily agree with your ideas, understand you always, or share your enthusiasms."
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"Everything has two handles; the one soft and manageable, the other such as will not endure to be touched. If then your brother do you an injury, do not take it by the hot hard handle, by representing to yourself all the aggravating circumstances of the fact; but look rather on the soft side, and extenuate it as much as is possible, by considering the nearness of the relation, and the long friendship and familiarity between you--obligations to kindness which a single provocation ought not to dissolve. And thus you will take the accident by its manageable handle."
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"When you actively engage in gradually refining yourself, you retreat from your lazy ways of covering yourself or making excuses. Instead of feeling a persistent current of low-level shame, you move forward by using the creative possibilities of this moment, your current situation."
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