"If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . . he will be surrounded by grandeur."
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"Let go of the past and live the future . . . Live the life you imagined."
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"You must speak loud to those who are hard of hearing."
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"We are more anxious to speak than to be heard."
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"The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory."
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"Here or nowhere is our heaven."
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"Sell your clothes- keep your thoughts."
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"Four things to think about. 1. Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. 2. Let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred. 3. Keep three chairs in your house. One for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. 4. To preserve your relationship to nature, make your life more moral, more pure, more innocent."
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"He who cuts down woods beyond a certain limit exterminates birds."
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"It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about."
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"We are older by faith than by experience."
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"We must look a long time before we can see"
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"I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune."
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"Be it life or death, we crave only reality."
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"The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows under your hands."
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"I was never molested by any person but those who represented the State. I had no lock nor bolt but for the desk which held my papers, not even a nail to put over my latch or windows. I never fastened my door night or day, though I was to be absent several days; not even when the next fall I spent a fortnight in the woods of Maine. And yet my house was more respected than if it had been surrounded by a file of soldiers."
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"The best way to correct a mistake is to make it right."
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"You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure."
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"Christianity only hopes. It has hung its harp on the willows, and cannot sing a song in a strange land. It has dreamed a sad dream, and does not yet welcome the morning with joy. The mother tells her falsehoods to her child, but, thank heaven, the child does not grow up in its parent's shadow. Our mother's faith has not grown with her experience. Her experience has been too much for her. The lesson of life was too hard for her to learn."
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"Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed."
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