"The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being."
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"The act of dying is one of the acts of life."
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"The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle."
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"In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength."
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"The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing."
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"Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear. The same things happen to another, and either because he does not see that they have happened or because he would show a great spirit he is firm and remains unharmed. It is a shame then that ignorance and conceit should be stronger than wisdom."
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"Enough of this wretched life and murmuring and apish tricks. Why art thou disturbed? What is there new in this? What unsettles thee? Is it the form of the thing? Look at it. Or is it the matter? Look at it. But besides these there is nothing. Towards the gods, then, now become at last more simple and better. It is the same whether we examine these things for a hundred years or three."
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"We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that."
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"This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole."
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"Let your one delight and refreshment be to pass from one service to the community to another, with God ever in mind."
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"But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in your power whenever you choose to retire into yourself."
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"Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging."
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"No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such"
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"The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer."
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"Man is born for deeds of kindness."
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"Glory arrives too late when it comes only to one's ashes"
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"Enter others' minds and let them enter yours."
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"Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day."
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"It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits."
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"He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit."
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