None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
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Sports & Competition   
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A man finds room in the few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.
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Mankind   
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People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
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Appearance & Attitudes   
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
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Beauty   
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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Appearance & Attitudes   
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The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
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Nature   
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The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature.
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The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.
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Genius   
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
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Science   
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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
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Quotations   
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
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The art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.
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Wealth   
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Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.
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Enthusiasm   
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The only gift is a portion of thyself.
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Miscellaneous   
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Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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Quotations   
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Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
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Miscellaneous   
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Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
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Nature   
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Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.
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Sports & Competition   
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Hitch your wagon to a star.
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Miscellaneous   
Work: American Civilization", The Atlantic Monthly, 1862
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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Knowledge   
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