What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
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What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
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They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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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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Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.
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