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At first sight there is something surprising in this strange unrest of so many happy men, restless in the midst of abundance.
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It tends to isolate them from each other, to concentrate every man's attention upon himself; and it lays open the soul to an inordinate love of material gratification.
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Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world, and the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.
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The very thing which is now the cause of thy great grief ought to have brought thee tranquillity.
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There are but two directions in this life in which you can grow; backward or forward.
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In proportion as the years both lessen and shorten, I set more count upon their periods, and would fain lay my ineffectual finger upon the spoke of the great wheel.
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Every man hath two birth-days: two days, at least, in every year, which set him upon revolving the lapse of time, as it affects his mortal duration.
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Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.
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A thing was worth buying then, when we felt the money that we paid for it.
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In brief, whatever you want, produce that something in yourself, and you will positively gravitate towards the corresponding conditions in the external world.
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To not only take risks, but to be open to life. To accept new views and to be open to new opinions.
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To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.
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Do you think I was born to live the life of an oyster, such as I do live here?
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If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
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The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
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She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world
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Denial of the right to experiment may be fraught with serious consequences to the nation.
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Our destiny in the midst of change will rest on the unchanged character of our people, and on their faith.
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Observe continually that all things exist in change; and keep this thought ever with you, that Nature loves nothing more than changing what things now are, and making others like them.
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In that category before anything else comes old age, to which all wish to attain, and at which all grumble when attained.
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The race is never over. The journey has no port. The adventure never ends because we are always on our way.
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Do not brood over the past, or dream of the future, but seize the instant and get your lesson from the hour.
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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself
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as the strings of the bow and lyre are alternately tightened and relaxed, so is it with the order of the world; in human affairs there is nothing pure and without alloy
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As therefore the shoe is shaped by the foot, and not the foot by the shoe, so does the disposition make the life similar to itself.