"All human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads till all is luminous."
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"Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed."
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"The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done."
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"Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere."
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"The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent."
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"To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish."
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"Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct."
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"It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe."
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"The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love."
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"If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown."
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"The spiritual is the parent of the practical."
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"The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only."
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"Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness."
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"Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope."
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"Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen."
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"It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe."
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"Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze."
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"In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment."
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"Let each become all that he was created capable of being."
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"To believe practically that the poor and luckless are here only as a nusiance to be abraded and abated, and in some permissable manner made away with, and swept out of sight, is not an amiable faith."
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