I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Nothing can now be believed which is seen in the newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.
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I've learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind.
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He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.
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Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.
The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I am.
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There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.
The wise man accepts his pain, endures it, but does not add to it.
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live accordingly to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
