"What we call results are beginnings."
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"The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic."
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"We have more than we use."
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"For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity."
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"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret."
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"Valor consists in the power of self recovery."
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"No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back."
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"These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world."
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"Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know."
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"Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it."
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"The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!"
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"How much of human life is lost in waiting."
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"The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit."
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"Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory."
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"Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject."
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"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out."
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"In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise."
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"The unique impression of Jesus upon mankind - whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of the world - is proof of the subtle virtue of this infusion. Jesus belonged to the race of prophets. He saw with open eyes the mystery of the soul. One man was true to what is in you and me. He, as I think, is the only soul in history who has appreciated the worth of man."
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"A good indignation brings out all one's powers."
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"Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated."
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