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I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.

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To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.

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Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.

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The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.

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A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

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A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene.

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In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.

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Whatever it is, it's better in the wind.

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You've got to be taught, to hate and fear, You've got to be taught, from year to year, It's got to be drummed in your dear little ear, You've got to be carefully taught.

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A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events; that our painful labors are unnecessary and fruitless; that only in our easy, simple, spontaneous action are we strong . . . . Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment.

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A little integrity is better than any career.

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Education should be as broad as man.

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We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

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Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market cart into a chariot of the sun.

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The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

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People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.

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We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

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A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me; 'that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.

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Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.

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He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.

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