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Let us tell ambition that it is she herself who gives us a taste of solitude; for what does she so much avoid as society?
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102
Ambition is of all others the most contrary humour to solitude; glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.
103
Retire yourself into yourself, but first prepare yourself there to receive yourself: it were a folly to trust yourself in your own hands, if you cannot govern yourself.
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This habit of putting off until tomorrow that which you should have done last week or last year or a score of years ago is gnawing at the very vitals of your being, and you can accomplish nothing until you throw it off.
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Men who are successful always seek the company of others who are successful, while men who are on the ragged side of life always seek the company of those who are in similar circumstances.
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the nature of the people is variable, and whilst it is easy to persuade them, it is difficult to fix them in that persuasion
107
Great men never wait for opportunities; they make them.
108
It is continuity of purpose alone that achieves results.
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The athlete trains for his race; and the mind must be put into training if one will win life's race.
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Genius unexecuted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
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Many of us imprison ourselves in the narrow limited poverty thought, and then, like caged eagles trying in vain to get free, we beat out our wings against the bars we have ourselves put up.
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Every person who amounts to anything feels within himself a power which is ever pushing him on and urging him to perpetual improvement.
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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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nature makes us free and unrestrained, but we bind and confine immure and force ourselves into small and scanty space
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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.
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In the next place, it is false that those that have little to do are easy in mind.
119
Whereas having many friends puts people apart and severs and disunites them, by transferring and shifting the tie of friendship too frequently, and does not admit of a mixture and welding of goodwill by the diffusing and compacting of intimacy.
120
Our heart ever changes its place till it finds love, and then it has its rest.
121
Though slowly and with pain, the objects of the affections change, as the objects of thought do.
122
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines
123
Thus even love, which is the deification of persons, must become more impersonal every day.
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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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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist