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"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
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"Make each day, the best day of life."
"I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success."
"Never wish to be somebody. You never know what they are made up of."
"Make your habits your beloved home."
"There is no limit to the heights we can reach if we take action by faith."
"No matter what happens to us, as long as we have hope, we shall recover."
"Every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise."
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"Do not fear criticism, accept it as an inspiration for boldness and action"
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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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