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This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

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Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

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All force strives forward to work far and wideTo live and grow and ever to expand;Yet we are checked and thwarted on each sideBy the world's flux and ...more

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Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

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The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.

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What you feed in yourself that grows.

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Nothing is more highly to be prized than the value of each day

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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!

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The world admires wealth and velocity—these are the things for which everyone strives. Railroads, the post, steamboats, and all possible modes of comm...more

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You are aware of only one unrest;Oh, never learn to know the other!Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast,And one is striving to forsake its broth...more

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Naturalists tell of a noble race of horses that instinctively open a vein with their teeth, when heated and exhausted by a long course, in order to br...more

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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so ...more