Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.


Marcus Aurelius

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
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Tho' lost to sight, to mem'ry dear/ Thou ever wilt remain.
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A poor soul burdened with a corpse,' Epictetus calls you.
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The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes.
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Your treasure house is within; it contains all you'll ever need.
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Your treasure house is within; it contains all you'll ever need.
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And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
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Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that's in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the ...
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Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
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Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
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All I have ever wanted, needed, dreamed and desired is contained within you.
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But the meaning of these events is not that you are being punished or that someone is to blame, it i...
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If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?
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The first vertue, sone, if thou wilt lerne, Is to restreyne and kepen wel thy tonge.
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Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever...
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And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then th...
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Direct not him whose way himself will choose: 'Tis breath thou lackest and that; breath wilt thou lo...
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If thy mind is altogether free, thou wilt not again enter into birth and decay.
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Likest thou jelly within thy doughnut?
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Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
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For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.
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Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.
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If you are without, look within.
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If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
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Let thy Child's first Lesson be Obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt
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Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
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Drink not the third glass which thou canst not tame / When once it is within thee.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou a...
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If thou wilt ease thine heart / Of love and all its smart, / Then sleep, dear, sleep.
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She needed the chaos within her in order to discover the extraordinary no man could ever reach.
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We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
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Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolen...
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Be like a headland of rock on which the waves break incessantly; but it stands fast and around it th...
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Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, t...
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The passing minute is every man's equal possession, but what has once gone by is not ours
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The present joys of life we doubly taste by looking back with pleasure on the past
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You may send poetry to the rich; to poor men give substantial presents
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Zoilus, why do you delight in using a whole pound weight of gold for the setting of a stone, and thu...
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Remember this that very little is needed to make a happy life.
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When the crowd of your admirers is shouting, "Bravo! Hear, hear!" it is not you, Pomponius, but your...
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You see these fish carved finely in relief by Phidian art? Add water; they will swim
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When I was ill, you came to me, Doctor, and with great urgency A hundred students brought With you A...
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It is a mistake to think that Acerra reeks of yesterday's liquor: Acerra always drinks till next mor...
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Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, t...
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Rest lightly on her earth, for she trod never heavily on thee
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Do you make a grievance of weighing so many pounds only instead of three hundred? Then why fret abou...
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You say, Senca, that you were violated by robbers, but the robbers deny it
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Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily
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How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with th...
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No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams
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Nothing in nature is evil.
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It certainly is uncomfortable for everybody. It's somewhat of an anomaly. We're still in August but ...
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I think if we had the same magnitude of devastation that they had, we would be very much challenged ...
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If it does not fit leave it, if it is not true do not say it.
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To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice
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Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee
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The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere
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Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear
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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing
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I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...
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Your face is black, your hair like flame, And one eye's damaged, one foot lame: If, still, you're qu...
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You ask me, Linus what my field out at Nomentum is to yield? Well this it yields to me: the view, my...
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To yield to the stronger is valor's second prize
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The height of farce it is, I ween, To be so perfumed and anointed, And when one's appetite's most ke...
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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking
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Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dy...
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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys
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Why do you wrap up your neck in a woolen muffler when you are going to recite? The muffler would be ...
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I could do without your face, Chloe, and without your neck, and your hands, and your limbs, and to s...
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