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"Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie."
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"To be inactive while engaged in activity is the real inactivity (non-doership)!"
"Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie."
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"Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach."
"Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life."
"It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours."
"It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great."
"He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled."
"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."
"Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves."
"The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves."
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