Be not simply good - be good for something.
From Henry David Thoreau
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
Truths and roses have thorns about them.
It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.
There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.
I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
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