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Live the life you've dreamed.

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The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

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Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

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Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've
imagined.

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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

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"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

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I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

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Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.

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I stand in awe of my body.

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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

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There is no remedy for love but to love more.

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