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Alas, we have known Times call loudly enough for their great man; but not find him when they called!
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Our supreme task is the resumption of our onward, normal way.
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Old companions are like meats served up too often, that lose their relish and their wholesomeness.
William Hazlittverified·On Living to One's-Self, in Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners·January 1821
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To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.
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To not only take risks, but to be open to life. To accept new views and to be open to new opinions.
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Do you think I was born to live the life of an oyster, such as I do live here?
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If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
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Do not brood over the past, or dream of the future, but seize the instant and get your lesson from the hour.
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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself
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nature makes us free and unrestrained, but we bind and confine immure and force ourselves into small and scanty space
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines
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It is injurious to the mind as well as to the body to be always in one place and always surrounded by the same circumstances.
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In the course of time, we grow to love things we hated and hate things we loved.
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If to-day thou art not ready, how shalt thou be ready to-morrow?
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We are all to some degree oppressed, unfree. We don't come to our own. It is there, but we don't get at it. The threshold must be made to shift.
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Accordingly a function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute.