I have a lantern. You steal my lantern. What, then, is your honour worth no more to you than the price of my lantern
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Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be or they neither are, nor appear to be or they are, and do not appear to be or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise mans task.Epictetus
First say to yourself what you would be, then do what you have to do.
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Ruin and recovery are alike from within.
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No great thing is created suddenly.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Any one thing in the creation is suffiocient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.
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