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"When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view."
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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

"Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."

"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

"A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation."
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"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul."

"With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!"

"You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart."

"The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith."

"Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it."

"It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death."

"For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros."
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