There is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
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Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this true, if you watch narrowly.
You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
Be grateful that on this raging sea you have a mind to guide you.
Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Each well-born soul must win what it deserves.
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
The perils of overwork are slight compared to the dangers of inactivity.
Actions are right in proportion as they promote happiness, wrong as the produce the reverse.
What you are is what you have been. What you will be is what you do now.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Dying is nothing. What is terrible is not to live.
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
