Each day provides its own gifts.
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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
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The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
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That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
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Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
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Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
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To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
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Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
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Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
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We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
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A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
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Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
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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 sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
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Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
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A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
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Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
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Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
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The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
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We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.
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