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Decision is a sharp knife that cuts or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.
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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
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Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.
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Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it's the one they will most need to know.
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Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other; given the upper, to find the under side.
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Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.
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Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.
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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
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For this reason the Bible is a book of eternal and effective power; because, as long as the world lasts, no one will say: I comprehend it in the whole and understand it in the particular. Rather we must modestly say it on the whole it is venerable, and in the particular practical.
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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
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Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
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Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.
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God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
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