"Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable."
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"A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer."
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"It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed."
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"The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range."
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"Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past."
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"All things are only transitory."
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"Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it."
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"If you want to make life easy, make it hard."
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"The human mind will not be confined to any limits."
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"He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth."
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"Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous."
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"We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies"
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"When you are in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."
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"If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill."
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"The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it."
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"Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy."
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"We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects."
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"I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator."
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"He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself."
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"There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world."
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