Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.
By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.
When it is darkest, we can see the stars.
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.
We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.
The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays.
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.
We all need someone who can help us do what we already can.
You must let go of a thing for a new one to come to you.
The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent - for every effect a perfect cause - and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.
Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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