"There is no harm in repeating a good thing."
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"One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent."
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"None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not."
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"A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker."
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"Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against."
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"The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication."
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"Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last."
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"The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value."
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"To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly."
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"Life's uncertain voyage."
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"He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king."
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"He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground."
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"The question of love is one that cannot be evaded. Whether or not you claim to be interested in it from the moment you are alive you are bound to be concerned with love because love is not just something that happens to you: It is a certain special way of being alive. Love is in fact an intensification of life a completeness a fullness a wholeness of life."
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"The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity—and until they do (and find the cure), all ideal plans will fall into quicksand."
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"They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed."
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"See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all."
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"I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy."
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"I have presented principles of philosophy that are not, however, philosophical but strictly mathematical-that is, those on which the study of philosophy can be based. These principles are the laws and conditions of motions and of forces, which especially relate to philosophy."
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"Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear."
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"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."
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