The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.
Appearance rules the world.
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Great is he, who conquers the frightful. Sublime is he, who, while succumbing to it, fears it not.
There's no such thing as chance; and what to us seems merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which marks the difference between the leaders in every activity and the laggards who put in just enough to get by.
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There are only two kinds of people, those who accept dogmas and know it, and those who accept dogmas and don't know it.
We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.
A problem well-put is half-solved.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.
Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.
Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other persons point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
