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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.



Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.



Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.



Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.



Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.



Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.



In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.



Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.



To inherit property is not to be born -- it is to be still-born, rather.



As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.



This world is but canvas to our imaginations



There can be no very black misery to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.



People lead lives of quiet desperation.



It takes two to speak the truth one to speak, and another to hear.



Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.







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