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"The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully."

"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."

"Action hangs, as it were, "dissolved" in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him."

"Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do."

"Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid."

"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

"The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest."

"Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether."

"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

"The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever."

"Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!"

"A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things."

"Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is."

"In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment."

"Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct."

"No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve."

"The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope."

"Oh, give us the man who sings at his work."

"Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it ;better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen."

"The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better."

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