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The meaning of the living words that come out of the experiences of great hearts can never be exhausted by any one system of logical interpretation.
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It is for our self to know that it must be born anew every moment of its life.
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For life is immortal youthfulness, and it hates age that tries to clog its movements--age that belongs not to life in truth, but follows it as the shadow follows the lamp.
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The more man acts and makes actual what was latent in him, the nearer does he bring the distant Yet-to-be.
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfilments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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Falling in love is the one illogical adventure, the one thing of which we are tempted to think as supernatural, in our trite and reasonable world.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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We are responsible for what we are; and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.
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I do not pretend to understand the moral universe, the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways. I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. But from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.
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The great crisis must come, or no man has the chance to develop great qualities.
Theodore Rooseveltverified·The Conditions of Success, an address at the Cambridge Union·May 26, 1910
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We have it in our power to begin the world over again
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The enormous expense of governments has provoked people to think, by making them feel; and when once the veil begins to rend, it admits not of repair.
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Every thought we think makes it necessary for us to think another thought; consciousness is continually expanding.
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The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining.
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The world is advanced only by those who more than fill their present places.
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Every fact we learn leads us to the learning of another fact; knowledge is continually increasing.
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Hate has four letters, but so does love. Enemies has seven letters, but so does friends. Lying has five letters, but so does truth. Failure has seven letters, but so does success. Cry has three letters, but so does joy. Negativity has ten letters, but so does positivity. You always have a choice, so choose the better side of it.
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The transformation, moreover, is a chronic one: the new level of energy becomes permanent.
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.