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Your disposition will be suitable to that which you most frequently think on; for the soul is, as it were, tinged with the color and complexion of its own thoughts
When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, endeavor to rouse your faculties, and act up to your kind, and consider that you have to do the business of a man; and that action is both beneficial and the end of your being
The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are
Remember that man's life lies all within this present; as for the rest, the past is gone, the future yet unseen
Receive the gifts of fortune without pride, and part with them without reluctance
Our understandings are always liable to error. Nature and certainty is very hard to come at; and infallibility is mere vanity and pretense
In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength
And yet, after all, what is posthumous fame? Altogether vanity
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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