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A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
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Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
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It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
Peace
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