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"Proclaim now that you refuse to die without fully living!"
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Personal Development
"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes."
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Personal Development
"There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."
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Personal Development
"I have danced too deeply in my shadows, to ever fear the walk of my sunshine."
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Personal Development
"The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live."
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Personal Development
"Sometimes walking away has nothing do with weakness, and everything to do with strength. We walk away not because we want others to realize our worth and value, but because we finally realize our own."
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Personal Development
"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
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Personal Development
"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."
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Personal Development
"When you put fear behind the wheel, you're bound to crash, but when you drive in faith the ride will be rough, but preceding into a journey of your lifetime."
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Personal Development
"Better hazard once than always be in fear."
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"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."
Morality
"There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly."
Justice
"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."
Art
"Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility."
Morality
"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."
Time
"It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion."
Philosophy
"Hitch your wagon to a star."
Inspirational
"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying."
Perception
"Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man."
Happiness
"Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors."
Philosophy
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