"Thoughts rule the world."
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"There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees."
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"Genius always finds itself a century too early."
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"Some books leave us free and some books make us free."
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"Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds."
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"For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends."
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"To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again."
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"Come out of the azure. Love the day. Do not leave the sky out of your landscape."
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"Do not be caught by the sensational in nature, as a coarse red-faced sunset, a garrulous waterfall, or a fifteen thousand foot mountain... avoid prettiness - the word looks much like pettiness - and there is but little difference between them."
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"Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee."
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"Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance."
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"A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word."
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"A little integrity is better than any career."
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"The the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light."
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"The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man."
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"Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated."
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"Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time."
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"If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them."
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"Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing."
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"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles."
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