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Every fact we learn leads us to the learning of another fact; knowledge is continually increasing.

The world is advanced only by those who more than fill their present places.

The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining.

Every thought we think makes it necessary for us to think another thought; consciousness is continually expanding.

Our supreme task is the resumption of our onward, normal way.

There is no instant step from disorder to order.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

A watched pot never boils.

Hate has four letters, but so does love. Enemies has seven letters, but so does friends. Lying has five letters, but so does truth. Failure has seven letters, but so does success. Cry has three letters, but so does joy. Negativity has ten letters, but so does positivity. You always have a choice, so choose the better side of it.

If you want to change the world sometimes you have to slide down the obstacle head first.

Even in the same family the gap is not so great; the wound closes up sooner than we should expect.

Old companions are like meats served up too often, that lose their relish and their wholesomeness.

Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.

It is notorious that a single successful effort of moral volition, such as saying 'no' to some habitual temptation, or performing some courageous act, will launch a man on a higher level of energy for days and weeks, will give him a new range of power.

We are all to some degree oppressed, unfree. We don't come to our own. It is there, but we don't get at it. The threshold must be made to shift.

The transformation, moreover, is a chronic one: the new level of energy becomes permanent.

A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

Excitements, ideas, and efforts, in a word, are what carry us over the dam.

Accordingly a function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute.

Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life without weakening or sentimentalizing it.

The pure men of old slept without dreams, and waked without anxiety.