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"If you know you are right, stay the course even though the whole world seems to be against you and everyone you know questions your judgment. When you prevail--and you eventually will if you stick to the job--they will all tell you that they knew all along you could do it."
"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now."
"In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day."
"Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great."
"What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak."
"Love is the essence of God."
"Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
"As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form."
"The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs."
"The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed."
"A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die."
"Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions."
"Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool."
"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff."
"As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points."
"I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature."
"Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action."
"A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes."
"Friends are like spaghetti, they should stick together. The only way to have a friend is to be one."