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Every person who amounts to anything feels within himself a power which is ever pushing him on and urging him to perpetual improvement.

It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins.

Success is the child of two very plain parents--punctuality and accuracy.

The present time is the raw material out of which we make whatever we will.

But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Numa's virtue made him so celebrated that he was judged worthy to be king, Lykurgus' made him so great that he did not care to be king.

freedom in speech is friendly and has weight, but reproach is selfish and little

who did not delay for any formal vote to empower him to do so, but followed him because he was born to command

Whereas having many friends puts people apart and severs and disunites them, by transferring and shifting the tie of friendship too frequently, and does not admit of a mixture and welding of goodwill by the diffusing and compacting of intimacy.

As therefore the shoe is shaped by the foot, and not the foot by the shoe, so does the disposition make the life similar to itself.

In the next place, it is false that those that have little to do are easy in mind.

as the strings of the bow and lyre are alternately tightened and relaxed, so is it with the order of the world; in human affairs there is nothing pure and without alloy

it seems to me that the Muses aided our old writers to complete their finest and most esteemed works by calling in exile as a fellow-worker

All our egoistic impulses, our selfish desires, obscure our true vision of the soul.

But music never has to depend upon any obvious meaning; it expresses what no words can ever express.

For joy is knowledge in its completeness, it is knowing by our whole being.

For life is immortal youthfulness, and it hates age that tries to clog its movements--age that belongs not to life in truth, but follows it as the shadow follows the lamp.

For we never can make anything our own except that which is truly related to us.

He who is wise tries to harmonise the wishes that seek for self-gratification with the wish for the social good, and only thus can he realise his higher self.

It is for our self to know that it must be born anew every moment of its life.

It is the function of religion not to destroy our nature but to fulfil it.

Only in love are unity and duality not at variance.

Only love is motion and rest in one.

Our heart ever changes its place till it finds love, and then it has its rest.