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To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature: to make beautiful things has more.
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What we do modifies us more than what is done to us.
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Your life will never be a straight path.
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Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense.
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Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.
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Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.
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The object of the game of life is to see clearly one’s good and to obliterate all mental pictures of evil.
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Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
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No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
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Yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.
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You are good when you strive to give of yourself.
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You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
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She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world
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It is not always recognized that the work itself is a great educator, and that acute cleverness in the line of work to which he is fitted comes to the worker.
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It is for our self to know that it must be born anew every moment of its life.
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It is the function of religion not to destroy our nature but to fulfil it.
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Only love is motion and rest in one.
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The meaning of the living words that come out of the experiences of great hearts can never be exhausted by any one system of logical interpretation.
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We gain our freedom when we attain our truest nature.
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All life that is not merely mechanical is spun out of two strands: seeking for that bird and hearing him.
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"Inherent differences" between men and women, we have come to appreciate, remain cause for celebration, but not for denigration of the members of either sex or for artificial constraints on an individual's opportunity.
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We are responsible for what we are; and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.
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Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above both is character.
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Desire is a manifestation of power.
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Desire is possibility seeking expression, or function seeking performance.