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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
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Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.
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Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.
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In the long run you only hit what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.
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The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
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Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
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The only obligation which I have a right to assume, is to do at any time what I think right.
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For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.
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Many go fishing without knowing it is fish they are after.
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
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Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.
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It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
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How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are!
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I stand in awe of my body.
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My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
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Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.
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Be not simply good - be good for something.
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Things do not change; we change.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
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It takes two to speak the truth--one to speak and the other to hear.
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In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.
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