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Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.
There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however unlike they seem. These varieties are lost sight of at a little distance, at a little height of thought. One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency.
The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet. This is the best part of these men's farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title.
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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
The eye is easily frightened.
For, the sense of being which in calm hours rises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them, and proceeds obviously from the same source whence their life and being also proceed. We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause. Here is the fountain of action and of thought.
Do the thing and you will have the power.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
