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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome...
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Nothing is less sincere than our mode of asking and giving advice. He who...
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It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents–except at occasional...
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By the end, everybody had a label — pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary … If...
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It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.
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So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.
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