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| Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence. | [▲] | [▼] |
| What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. | [▲] | [▼] |
| What a new face courage puts on everything! | [▲] | [▼] |
| Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. | [▲] | [▼] |
| A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines. | [▲] | [▼] |
| This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am prone to count myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person who I pay with money, whereas if I had not that commodity, I should be put on my good behavior in all companies, and man would be a benefactor to man, as being himself his only certificate that he had a right to those aids and services which each asked of the other. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Every hero becomes a bore at last. | [▲] | [▼] |
| A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. | [▲] | [▼] |
| We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases. | [▲] | [▼] |
| America is another name for opportunity. | [▲] | [▼] |
| The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, allennuis, vanish - all duties even. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. | [▲] | [▼] |