The world belongs to the energetic.
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Character   
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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Beauty   
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
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Prayer   
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The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.
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Wisdom   
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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
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Action   
Teenager   
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Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions.
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Humor   
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Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.
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Fear   
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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Enthusiasm   
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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
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Character   
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Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.
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Money   
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
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Common Sense   
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Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.
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Music   
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What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
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Action   
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There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.
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Crime   
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There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.
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Imagination   
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There are always those who think they know what is your responsibility better than you do.
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Life   
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A great man is always willing to be little.
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Humility   
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I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.
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Reading   
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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.
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Art   
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You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.
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Kindness   
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