"Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success."
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"In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is."
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"Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom."
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"Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows."
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"Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault."
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"We are wiser than we know."
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"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
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"I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity."
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"The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried."
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"More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world, and whose axis is parallel to the axis of the world. Now, their toys are steam and galvanism."
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"The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause."
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"To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again. In their eternal calm, he finds himself."
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"Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities."
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"No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature."
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"Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first."
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"Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor."
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"He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things."
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"The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all."
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"Beware of what you want-for you will get it."
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"The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs."
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