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"Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will. He may divest himself of it; he may creepinto a corner, and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution."
"The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders."
"The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself."
"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art."
"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong."
"No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character."
"The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays."
"Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might."
"Every great man is unique."
"Life is a festival only to the wise."
"Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose."
"Every burned book enlightens the world."
"The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere."
"We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions."
"We acquire the strength we have overcome."
"You are constantly invited to be what you are."
"Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others."
"Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds."
"The ancestor of every action is a thought."
"No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing."