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 | "Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life
in the midst of the humble and inevitable reality of daily existence. Than
this, there can be no nobler aim in life." | |
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Found in the topic Noble.
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| "We possess only the happiness we are able to understand." | |
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Found in the topic Happiness.
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| "The manner in which the hours of freedom are spent determines, no
less than labor and war, the moral worth of a nation." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Silence is the element in which great things fashion
themselves." | |
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Found in the topic Sick.
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| "I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I
did not deserve it. In vain have I tried to step beyond what bound me.
Despite my years, I am still trying." | |
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Found in the topic Opportunity.
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| "The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things
tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of
good sense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to
burn too large a number of heretics; extreme and unreasonable opinion
obviously demanded that they should burn none at all." | |
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Found in the topic Moderation.
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