"Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat."
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"The errors of the observer come from the qualities of the human mind."
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"One doesn't always lose when one has to do without."
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"We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers."
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"Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light."
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"All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it."
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"Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun."
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"Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own."
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"One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man."
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"Superstition is the poetry of life. It is inherent in man's nature; and when we think it is wholly eradicated, it takes refuge in the strangest holes and corners, whence it peeps out all at once, as soon as it can do it with safety."
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"Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he can move my every inmost part - yet nothing in the outer world is stirred. thus by existence tortured and oppressed I crave for death, I long for rest."
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"The rogue has everywhere the advantage."
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"Any trifle is enough to entertain two lovers."
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"Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be wrenched from her with levers, screws and hammers."
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"Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam."
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"Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image. [Ger., Das Betragen ist ein Spiegel in welchem jeder sein Bild zeigt.]"
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"The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection."
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"Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off."
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"No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious."
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"Every beginning is cheerful."
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