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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide
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To be great is to be misunderstood
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist
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A mind might ponder its thought for ages and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.
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If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier.
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If I feel overshadowed and outdone by great neighbors, I can yet love; I can still receive; and he that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves.
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We say so because we feel that what we love is not in your will, but above it.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
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The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or the place.
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A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc.
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One protects himself by solitude, and one by courtesy, and one by an acid, worldly manner,--each concealing how he can the thinness of his skin and his incapacity for strict association.