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"Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does notfear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any commonprizefighter? Who would stoop to be fearless--like a tree? Fight thething that you fear. You remember the old tale of the English clergymanwho gave the last rites to the brigand of Sicily, and how on hisdeath-bed the great robber said, 'I can give you no money, but I cangive you advice for a lifetime: your thumb on the blade, and strikeupwards.' So I say to you, strike upwards, if you strike at the stars."
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"Don't surrender your life to a Face, a Farce, a Fence or a Force. Don't be a Slave, be Brave."
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"We ought to live the fullness of life."
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"Stand tall like a tower."
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"When we give up our dreams then we are merely existing and not living."
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"If you try you would never be alone, because the whole world is tired of loneliness."
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"Without enthusiasm then what we have surrounded ourselves with becomes worthless."
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"Do not let the temporal pain of discipline you need to acquire knowledge stop you from acquiring it."
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"Believe in yourself and the power of your inner strength."
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"Go live your dreams. It is your only daring adventure."
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"Fully inhale your dream and completely exhale manifestation of it."
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"It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos, for man was always small compared to the nearest tree."
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"A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud."
Nature

"Job is an optimist. He shakes the pillars of the world and strikes insanely at the heavens; he lashes the stars, but it is not to silence them; it is to make them speak."
Strength

"A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew it so well."
Literature

"The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt, they are forbidden to believe."
Philosophy

"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet."
Politics

"When modern sociologists talk of the necessity of accommodating one's self to the trend of the time, they forget that the trend of the time at its best consists entirely of people who will not accommodate themselves to anything. At its worst it consists of many millions of frightened creatures all accommodating themselves to a trend that is not there. And that is becoming more and more the situation...Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion."
Society

"Once I thought it delightful and astonishing to find a present so big that it only went halfway into the stocking. Now I am delighted and astonished every morning to find a present so big that it takes two stockings to hold it, and then leaves a great deal outside; it is the large and preposterous present of myself."
Self

"The books that influence the world are those that it has not read."
Knowledge

"The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man."
Perspective
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