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"A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties."
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"If you say, 'Now I look like an old man', you will start to look like an old man. If you say, 'No, I look like a young man now', you will start to look like a young man. What you project is what you will see. Soul is the form of projection and if false projections are done, the worldly life is created! If you come to a state free of false belief (wrong projection), You will be in the state of the 'Real form of the Self' (mood swaroop)."

"Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation."

"The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it."

"Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul."

"The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live."
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"For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe."

"Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered."

"It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature."

"If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power."

"If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America."

"We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it."

"There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land."

"Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it."
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