The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.
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The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A strenuous soul hates cheap success.
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Raphael paints wisdom Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
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One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours.
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A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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