"It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being."
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"Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth."
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"Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment."
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"Silence is more eloquent than words."
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"Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment."
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"Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking."
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"Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance."
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"Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with."
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"In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol proper, what we can call a symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation of the Infinite; the Infinite is made to blend itself with the Finite, to stand visible, and as it were, attainable there. By symbols, accordingly, is man guided and commanded, made happy, made wretched."
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"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together."
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"Speech is great, but silence is greater."
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"No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve."
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"As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can."
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"It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five."
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"That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only."
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"Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!"
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"A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder."
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"If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead."
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"When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze."
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"Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man."
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