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Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the hearts of men.

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He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most b...more

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in...more

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

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Daydream, which is to thought as the nebula is to the star, borders on sleep, and is concerned with it as its frontier. An atmosphere inhabited by liv...more

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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist, it is by the ideal that we live.

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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I ...more

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

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A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.

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Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men

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Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its little care. Yesterday you were trembling for the...more

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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.