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A mind might ponder its thought for ages and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.
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All life that is not merely mechanical is spun out of two strands: seeking for that bird and hearing him.
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By this practice he may obtain the solitude of adversity without its melancholy, its instructions without its censures, and its sensibility without its perturbations.
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Watch a man do his most common actions; those are indeed the things which will tell you the real character of a great man.
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Very, very early in my boyhood I had acquired the habit of going about alone to amuse myself in my own way.
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Extreme altruism is no better and no nobler than extreme selfishness; both are mistakes.
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Desire is possibility seeking expression, or function seeking performance.
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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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Sensation is unorganized stimulus, perception is organized sensation, conception is organized perception, science is organized knowledge, wisdom is organized life: each is a greater degree of order, and sequence, and unity.
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Intimate friends are not fair witnesses to character, any more than professed enemies.
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This danger is greatly heightened, as it has been always observable that men are less jealous of encroachments of one department upon another than upon their own reserved rights.
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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing: it refuses nothing. It receives, but does not keep.