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"No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance; but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to the giver and receiver; whereas those favors are in some sort scandalous that make a man ashamed of his patron."
"Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself."
"Life without the courage for death is slavery."
"When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?"
"A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary"
"It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent."
"The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering."
"No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character."
"Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity."
"Many things have fallen only to rise higher."
"He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward."
"Everything hangs on one's thinking."
"Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition."
"To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful."
"The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them."
"There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion."
"The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger."
"It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know."
"If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living."
"The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it"