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"The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without."
"The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles."
"Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world."
"When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers."
"The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land."
"The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation."
"He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist."
"A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors."
"The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge."
"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them."
"The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world."
"The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's."
"I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching."
"The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the storm without."
"Great geniuses have the shortest biographies."
"Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far."
"If you don't ride in the rain, you don't ride."
"In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place."
"If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors."
"Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world."