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"The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed."
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"When you leave a port, ask yourself two questions: What mark you have made on that port and what have you learned from that port?"
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"The laws is not meant to destroy us. But our disobedience leads to our own destruction."
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"Whether you are aware of it or not, your life is still disappearing. It's pouring out, it keeps diminishing."
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"You never know what people have endured to get where they are."
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"Why do you compare yourself to others? Can you carry weight of others on your shoulders?"
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"Everyone should think about why certain undesirable situations occur in life."
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"Knowing my soul is my lifetime-study."
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"What you are seeking is yourself."
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"Life is head and shoulders above all other things we regard as precious in this world."
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"The world is full of vanities."
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"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."
Dream

"The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles."
Communication

"In books, that which is most generally interesting is what comes home to the most cherished private experience of the greatest number. It is not the book of him who has travelled the farthest over the surface of the globe, but of him who has lived the deepest and been the most at home."
Literature

"Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces."
Power

"How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?"
Life

"I rejoice that horses and steers have to be broken before they can be made the slaves of men, and that men themselves have some wild oats still left to sow before they become submissive members of society."
Freedom

"I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men."
Wisdom

"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new."
Society

"There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone."
Friendship

"They who suspect a Mephistophiles, or sneering, satirical devil, under all, have not learned the secret of true humor, which sympathizes with gods themselves, in view of their grotesque, half-finished creatures."
Humor
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