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Resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer.
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Our cause, then, must be intrusted to, and conducted by, its own undoubted friends--those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work, who do care for the result.
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We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.
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The soul should take care of the body, just as a pilgrim on his way to Mecca takes care of his camel.
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Every evening he should examine his heart as to what he has done to see whether he has gained or lost in his spiritual capital.
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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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The soul has wants which must be satisfied; and whatever pains be taken to divert it from itself, it soon grows weary, restless, and disquieted amidst the enjoyments of sense.
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Education, then, is the safest and richest investment possible to man.
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Teach them that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and is already asking for their trained, efficient forces.
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His capacity for work was prodigious, and when his own work happened to take less than his full time he characteristically found activity in serving a scientist or exercising an animal.
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Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion.
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If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.
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When we have been engaged in the preliminaries to living for about fifty-five years, we begin to think about slacking off.
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My aim is to show that only an inappreciable fraction of our ordered and sustained efforts is given to the business of actual living, as distinguished from the preliminaries to living.
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A man's powers ought not to be monopolised by his ordinary day's work.
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if your ordinary day's work is thus exhausting, then the balance of your life is wrong and must be adjusted
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Great minds are like eagles, and build their nest in some lofty solitude.
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To have no regular work, no set sphere of activity--what a miserable thing it is!
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There is a direct pleasure in seeing work grow under one's hands day by day, until at last it is finished.
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No man is so formed that he can be left entirely to himself, to go his own ways; everyone needs to be guided by a preconceived plan, and to follow certain general rules.
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On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.
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The oath taken in the presence of the people becomes a mutual covenant.
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Not from space must I seek my dignity, but from the ruling of my thought.
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Who does not see from all this that man has gone astray, that he has fallen from his place, that he seeks it with disquiet, that he cannot regain it?
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Cast down your bucket where you are.