It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

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The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

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Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

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Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

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Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

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It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

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It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

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Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

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