Far or forgot to me is near;
Shadow and sunlight are the same;
The vanished gods to me appear;
And one to me are shame and fame.

They reckon ill who leave me out;
When me they fly, I am the wings;
I am the doubter and the doubt,
And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.


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By nature all people are alike, but by education become different
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The day are ever divine as to the first Aryans. They are of the least pretension, and of the great...
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Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never...
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Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no ...
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do st...
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.
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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
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Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the...
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Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
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Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This...
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Today is a king in disguise.
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Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
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When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought s...
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Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.
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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.
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Wherever there is power there is age.
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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.
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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any ot...
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An empire is an immense egotism.
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Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have b...
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last ...
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Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in...
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
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You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distan...
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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
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Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks con...
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When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your...
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicte...
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The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
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Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
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Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent t...
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The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
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A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.
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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.
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The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
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Let us treat the men and women well: treat them as if they were real: perhaps they are.
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Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations.
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I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.
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Music causes us to think eloquently.
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The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.
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We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
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The world is his who has money to go over it.
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Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, ...
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