"Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside."
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"Nothing great ever happened without enthusiasm."
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"Ne te quaesiveris extra." (Do not seek for things outside of yourself)"
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"Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other."
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"And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires."
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"Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed."
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"When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and rustle of the corn."
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"There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence."
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"There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent"
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"Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe."
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"Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole."
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"Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs."
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"When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood; he has gained facts; learns his ignorance; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill."
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"Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived."
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"Our distrust is very expensive."
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"Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book."
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"America is another name for opportunity."
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"Living without Laughing isn't living. Be silly. Be honest. Be Kind."
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"Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you."
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"My angel,-his name is Freedom,- Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west, And fend you with his wing."
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