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 | "Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is
necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience
and from this to proceed to investigate the reason." | |
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Found in the topic Reason.
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| "While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been
learning how to die." | |
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Found in the topic Death.
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| "Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no
art." | |
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Found in the topic Art.
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| "Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold
weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the
mind." | |
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Found in the topic Action.
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| "Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "He turns not back who is bound to a star." | |
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Found in the topic Star.
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| "Nature never breaks her own laws." | |
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Found in the topic Nature.
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| "The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination
when awake." | |
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Found in the topic Dream.
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| "Vows begin when hope dies." | |
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Found in the topic Hope.
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| "Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it." | |
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Found in the topic Fear.
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| "It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end." | |
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Found in the topic Begin.
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| "Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind." | |
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Found in the topic Mind.
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| "I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will
come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now
look upon the murder of men." | |
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Found in the topic Murder.
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| "The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the
senses." | |
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Found in the topic Illusions.
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| "Intellectual passion drives out sensuality." | |
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Found in the topic Intellect.
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| "Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of
labor." | |
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Found in the topic Labor.
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| "Those who are enamoured of practice without science are like a pilot
who goes into a ship without rudder or compass and never has any certainty
of where he is going. Practice should always be based upon a sound
knowledge of theory." | |
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Found in the topic Practice.
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| "You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over
yourself.... the height of a man"s success is gauged by his self-mastery;
the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment.... And this law is the
expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over
himself will have no dominion over others." | |
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Found in the topic Self.
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| "Wisdom is the daughter of experience." | |
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Found in the topic Experience.
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