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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Nature Forth Large Bounded
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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.

Many Souls Fail God
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In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder.

Every Friendship Hearts Themselves
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The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

Best Cattle Eternal Fame
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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Afraid Because Harmony Never
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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

Absence Acquainted Affliction Am
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I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

Actions Bring Distilled Feelings
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Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

Because Day Early Enough
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.

About Always Because Each
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I got married before I found myself. People should find themselves before they get married.

Before Find Found Get
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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

Achievements Apt Chance Design
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They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

Apply Become Commonly Great
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Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.

About Celebrated Else Fame
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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

Be True Consistent Contradict Honestly
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
Copy Improve Model Other
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The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

Beyond Defeat Defeating Enemy
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

Answer Authority Bound Consider
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History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

Always Been Come Compel
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Caregivers attract caregivers and live in a community of love. They are energized by their caring, fulfilled, and they love life. Caretakers attract caretakers and live in the company of resentful victims who see themselves as misused and are fatigued from constant giving with no return.

Attract Caretakers Caring Community
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When two people in an intimate-couple relationship look at their interactions as opportunities to learn about themselves instead of change each other, they are infusing their relationship with the energy of spiritual partnership.

About Change Each Energy
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
Anything Cannot Discover Help
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People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.

Charity Conservatives Donate Higher
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It's very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don't know what your value system is, then you don't know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.

System Taking Themselves Understand
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It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It's never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.

Person Potential Recognize Themselves
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Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

Against Competing Divorced Facts
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I tended to write poems about both social and spiritual problems, and some problems one doesn't really want to solve, and so the problems themselves are solved. You certainly don't want to solve problems in poems that haven't been solved in the world.

Certainly Poems Problems Really
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Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

Among Disagree Only Quarrel
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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Beginning Find Fit Image
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Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

Care Effects Good Leaves
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Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.

Act Free Imitators Initiative
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From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.

Depth Despair Dignity Fill
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None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

High Judgments None Opinion
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The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

Enemy Greatest Human Salvation
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Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.

Ages Between Continue Fascinating
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People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Content How Impressive Matter
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I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that's OK, too. It's whatever suits you.

People Religious Respectful Suits
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War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

Conscience Must Stifle Themselves
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And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.

All People Any Care Live
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Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

Be Real Definite Happiness Joy
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Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

Hard People Play Seriously
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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Almost Create Disadvantage Every
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Element Fashion Great Silence
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I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.

Always Anything Close Mountains
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Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

Acknowledge Believe Eloquent Hardly
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Once I found out that people were really making careers for themselves off the Internet, independently, I was really inspired.

Careers Found Independently Inspired
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Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

Apply Equal Equally Experience
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I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.

Any Best Best Way Deny
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One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud.

About Books Children Great
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Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
Artist Beauty Interpret Mission
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I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

About Along Always Feel
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