The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --Never read a book that is not a year old. Never read any but the famed books. Never read any but what you like.
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Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A political victory, a rise in rents, the recovery of your sick, or return of your absent friend, or some other quite external event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. from Self-Reliance.
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The greatest man in history was the poorest.
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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails.
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