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Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends
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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Our strength grows out of our weaknesses.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
Men are what their mothers made them.
When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear.
A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.
The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.
Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.
If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms, for they have not so much madness left in their brains, you have a nation of lovers, of benefactors, of true, great, and able men.
There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.
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Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.
