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"A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still."
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"No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction."
Money
"There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other."
Education
"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."
Knowledge
"When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live."
Life
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
Man
"Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again."
Change
"To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity."
Perseverance
"A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him."
Ambition
"Friendship peculiar boon of Heaven The noble mind's delight and pride To men and angels only given To all the lower world denied."
Relationship
"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
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"An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous."
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Personal Development
"Ideal is the one, who knows the self."
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Personal Development
"The young all have the same dream: to save the world. Some quickly forget this dream, convinced that there are more important things to do, like having a family, earning money, traveling, and learning a foreign language. Others, though, decide that it really is possible to make a difference in society and to shape the world we will hand on to future generations."
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"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem."
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"Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds."
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"For it cannot be denied that all over the world and in all ages there are beings who are perceived to be extraordinary, charming, and appealing, and whom many honor as benevolent spirits, because they make one think of a more beautiful, a freer, a more winged life than the one we lead."
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"There was something better in life than this rubbish, if only he could get to it-love-nobility-big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend. . ."
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"Idealizing life is surely quite unrealistic, however, it is much better than living in constant despair."
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"Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today -- gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon."
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"The more idealism proves futile, the more I respect idealists."
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