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The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.

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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

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A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.

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Treat your friend as a spectacle.

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All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.

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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

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The intellect searches out the Absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of affection. The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other, and the exclusive activity of the one generates the exclusive activity of the other. There is something unfriendly in each to the other, but they are like the alternate periods of feeding and working in animals; each prepares and will be followed by the other.

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The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.

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The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the storm without.

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We must leave our pets at home, when we go into the street, and meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense.

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When there is no vision, people perish.

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All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

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Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.

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The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crisis, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!

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The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.

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Truth has already ceased to be itself if polemically said.

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Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

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The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.

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Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for all its pride.

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The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir.

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