How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?
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It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in a government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone. . . .Henry David Thoreau
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
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Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.
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Truths and roses have thorns about them.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
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The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.
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