"I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources."
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"Do not engage to find things as you think they are."
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"A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused."
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"I never yet knew the sun to be knocked down and rolled through a mud-puddle; he comes out honor-bright from behind every storm. Let us then take sides with the sun, seeing we have so much leisure."
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"The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel."
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"I seem to have dodged all my days with one or two persons, and lived upon expectation,--as if the bud would surely blossom; and soI am content to live."
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"Men cannot conceive of a state of things so fair that it cannot be realized."
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"I see America has infused you with the optimism that has made her so great"
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"Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes."
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"Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists"
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"With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming to him, who rejoices in counting on himself alone and in acting alone for the good of all."
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"Don't forget to balance optimism with fact and belief with reality."
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"My optimism for life carried through my work."
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"Only from the perspective of such a utopia is it possible to use the concepts of pessimism and optimism with full justification: an optimist is someone who thinks that on planet number five the history of mankind will be less bloody. A pessimist is one who thinks otherwise."
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