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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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If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal--that is your success.
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I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
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Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? 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 not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
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Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
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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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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
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Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.
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We were born to succeed, not to fail
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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
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