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Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

Blessed Season Whole world Love
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Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

Afraid Opposition Kite rises Wind
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Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing for - life by keeping eyes, mind and heart open to nature, men, books, experience - and what he gathers serves him at unexpected moments in unforeseen ways.

Lost upon Growth Wasted One
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To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.

Quiet mind Possess Calm Spirit
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Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.

Genius Falls short Actuality Human life
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A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.

Man Never Idle Advantage
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A cottage will hold as much happiness as would stock a palace.

Cottage Hold Much happiness
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Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary.

Genius Overflowing vitality Fertilize Nature
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The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.

Question Settle Time Influence
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The test of friendship is its fidelity when every charm of fortune and environment has been spent away, and the bare, undraped character alone remains; if love still holds steadfast, and the joy of companionship survives in such an hour, the fellowship becomes a beautiful prophecy of immortality.

Test Friendship Fidelity Fortune
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There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a man's character more fully than the spirit in which he bears his limitations.

Kind Life Sweetness Strength
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Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for the purpose of progress.

Real freedom Mastery Knowledge Historic conditions
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The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.

Germs Truth Ripe moment Answers
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Then the maiden climbed into a tree, and, seating herself in the branches, began to knit.

The maiden Climbed Branches
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Of the race, untrammelled by the necessity of rigid adherence to the fact. The myths record the earliest attempt at an explanation of the world and its life; the fairy tale records the free and joyful

Race Untrammeled Rigid adherence Fact
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Now at the end of a long avenue, but when he turned to, look for his followers not one was to be seen; the woods had closed instantly upon him as he had passed through. He was entirely alone, and utter

End Long avenue Followers Seen
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On every side were stretched the bodies of men and animals apparently lifeless.

Every side Stretched Men Animals
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It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

Impossible Enslave Mentally Human freedom
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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Fame Vapor Accident Riches
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We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.

One people Freedom Slavery
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The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
Darkest hour Man's life Sits down Money
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While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.

Boasting Noble deeds Ugly fact Iniquitous
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I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.

I am Inferior Man Right
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The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth: truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier.

Best use Journal Practical amount Truth
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Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.

Men Great riches Culture Business
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In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
Begin Blade Creating Easier
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Character Imagination Society Solitude
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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

Blade Cut Either Grasp
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Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
Democracy Every Every Man Gives
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Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

Bear Cheer Come Good
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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

Dawn Death Delightful Light
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Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

About Angry Anything Bring
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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

Before Curtain Heart His
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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
Action Beautiful Less Lovely
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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
Alone Change Dead Foolish
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The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

Greatest Homage Pay Truth
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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
Another Bees Books Carry
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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Aim Crime Failure Low
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Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

Gives Many Nothing Pleasures
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It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

Emergencies Man Metal Mind
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Experience Thorn Warning Whole
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The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
Aches Forgets Heart Sorrow
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There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

Cruelty Desperately Longer Monotonous
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Fate loves the fearless.
Fate Fear Fearless Loves
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Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

Circumstances Example Impulse Life
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As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

Change End Every Faces
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Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

Aim Begin Crime Failure
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What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
Book Criticized Old Security
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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Blown Candle Easily Finds
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Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

Come Conflict Decide Every
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