"Poor is the man who desires a lot"
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"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing."
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"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."
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"You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others."
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"Intellectual passion dries out sensuality."
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"A gray day provides the best light."
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"The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow."
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"You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind."
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"The cat is nature's masterpiece."
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"Your brain is much better than you think; just use it!"
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"To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it."
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"In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time."
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"Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art."
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"There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement."
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"I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand."
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"Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor."
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"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen."
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"Learning is the only thing that never disappoints us."
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"The five senses are the ministers of the soul."
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"If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight."
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