"We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn."
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"Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was a vain endeavor?"
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"The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency."
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"We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers."
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"In the long run, you hit only what you aim at."
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"Truths and roses have thorns about them."
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"One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something."
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"I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety. I am ready to try this for the next ten thousand years, and exhaust it. How sweet to think of! my extremities well charred, and my intellectual part too, so that there is no danger of worm or rot for a long while. My breath is sweet to me. O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment."
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"Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts."
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"Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short."
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"Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it."
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"There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love."
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"The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!"
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"Men are born to succeed, not to fail."
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"The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins."
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"To say that a man is your Friend means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy."
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"One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve."
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"I have no time to be in a hurry."
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"Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well."
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"It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things."
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