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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."
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"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."
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"It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego."
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"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."
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"It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning."
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"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."
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"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord."
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"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."
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"Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk."
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"Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood."
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"To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it."
Friendship

"Fidelity is the sister of justice."
Family

"Subdue your passion or it will subdue you."
Passion

"Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?"
Soul

"Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings."
Death

"It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed."
Fool

"The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable."
Act

"Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain."
Fortune

"Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least."
Patience

"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."
Adversity
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