What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
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We should not pretend to under...
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgement of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, as must, if it be honest, also come an understanding of its inadequacy.
We do not quit playing because...
We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
Things turn out best for those...
Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.
The highest stage in moral u...
The highest stage in moral ure at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
The great are great only becau...
The great are great only because we are on our knees. Let us rise!
Men of perverse opinion do not...
Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till some one dash it from them.
Life is a great surprise. I do...
Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
In great moments life seems ne...
In great moments life seems neither right nor wrong, but something greater: it seems inevitable.
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