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"To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change."
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"The only way to change the world is to quit thinking it's a job for Superman. Real power lies in your own hands."

"If the tranquillity is killing you, seek for the storm to save your life!"

"The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide."

"Like birds leaving the dangerous places man must also leave his dangerous ideas!"

"The fate of every unusual thing is to be a usual thing quickly!"
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"If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted."

"There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point."

"Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling."

"The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self."

"There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time."

"So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational."

"Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture."
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