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Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good.
Topic: Sweetness
Source: Compensation
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The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and
likeness.
Topic: Sympathy
Source: Representative Men--Montaigne
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Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.
Topic: Sympathy
Source: None
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Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.
Topic: Talent
Source: None
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
Topic: Tax
Source: None
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There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same
state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place;
he is you, and you are he; there is a teaching; and by no
unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the
benefit.
Topic: Teaching
Source: Essays--Of Spiritual Laws
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Knowledge exists to be imparted.
Topic: Teaching
Source: None
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The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.
Topic: Teaching
Source: None
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No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
Topic: Teamwork
Source: None
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Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
Topic: Temper
Source: None
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Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
Topic: Temper
Source: None
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As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptations we resist.
Topic: Temptation
Source: None
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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
Topic: Thought
Source: None
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Our best thoughts come from others.
Topic: Thoughts
Source: None
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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Topic: Thoughts
Source: None
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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Topic: Thoughts
Source: None
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These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.
Topic: Time
Source: None
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Topic: Time
Source: None
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Do not be too timid or squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Topic: Timidity
Source: None
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No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.
Topic: Travel
Source: None
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Topic: Trifles
Source: None
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Topic: Trust
Source: None
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Topic: Trust
Source: None
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Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Topic: Truth
Source: None
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
Topic: Truth
Source: None
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God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both.
Topic: Truth
Source: None
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The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.
Topic: Truth
Source: None
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One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty is another's ugliness; one man's wisdom is another's folly.
Topic: Ugliness
Source: None
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Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit . . .
Topic: Unworthy
Source: None
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There is always safety in valor.
Topic: Valor
Source: None
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Valor consists in the power of self recovery.
Topic: Valor
Source: None
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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Topic: Value
Source: None
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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.
Topic: Value
Source: None
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Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.
Topic: Vice
Source: None
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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
Topic: Victims
Source: None
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Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.
Topic: Victory
Source: None
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The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.
Topic: Victory
Source: None
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All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
Topic: Violence
Source: None
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The virtue in most request is conformity.
Topic: Virtue
Source: None
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The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.
Topic: Virtue
Source: None
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The only reward of virtue is virtue.
Topic: Virtue
Source: None
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Where there is no vision a people perish.
Topic: Vision
Source: None
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Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.
Topic: Vocation
Source: None
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A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.
Topic: Voice
Source: None
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It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Topic: Volunteerism
Source: None
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How much of human life is lost in waiting.
Topic: Waiting
Source: None
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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
Topic: Want
Source: None
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Our strength grows out of our weakness.
Topic: Weakness
Source: None
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Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity
and you need not give alms.
Topic: Wealth
Source: Wealth
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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large
enough to cover.
Topic: Wealth
Source: Wealth
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