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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show for any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
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Always do what you are afraid to do.
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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invated by worry, fret and anxiety.
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A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
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Imitation is suicide.
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To know one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
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For each thorn, there's a rosebud...
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To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch of a redeemed social condition; to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.
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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion. It is easy in solitude to live after our own. But the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
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As we grow old…the beauty steals inward.
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What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.
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Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
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Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
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Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity.
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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