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"In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high."
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"You want to achieve your dreams early, right? I know of only one back door; that's HARDWORK. Only few people use that entrance so the advantage is that there is no or less traffic there!"

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"Christians are becoming disengaged in following the Scripture that tells us not to conform to the world's system."

"Success has ruined many a man."

"Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other."

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"It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course."

"It's too late to be studying Hebrew, it's more important to understand even the slang of today."

"It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the town... he can walk out the gate empty-handed and without anxiety."

"The childish and savage taste of men and women for new patterns keeps how many shaking and squinting through kaleidoscopes that they may discover the particular figure which this generation requires to-day. The manufacturers have learned that this taste is merely whimsical. Of two patterns which differ only by a few threads more or less of a particular color, the one will be sold readily, the other lie on the shelf, though it frequently happens that after the lapse of a season the latter becomes the most fashionable. Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable."

"I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest."

"Probably no country was ever ruled by so mean a class of tyrants as, with a few noble exceptions, are the editors of the periodical press in this country. And as they live and rule only by their servility, and appealing to the worst, and not the better nature of man, the people who read them are in the condition of the dog that returns to his vomit."

"For the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have."

"A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town."
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