"He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely."

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"He that knows not what the world is, knows not where he is himself. He that knows not for what he was made, knows not what he is nor what the world is."

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"One Universe made up of all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of Being, and one Law, the Reason, shared by all thinking creatures, and one Truth."

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"Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word or lose thy self-respect."

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""Let thine occupations be few," saith the sage, "if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life.""

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"Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away."

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"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."

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"Many the lumps of frankincense on the same altar; one falls there early and another late, but it makes no difference."

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"Remember that to change thy mind and to follow him that sets thee right, is to be none the less the free agent that thou wast before."

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"Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last."

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"Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth."

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"Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favour; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills."

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"Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life,--there, if one must speak out, the real man."

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"The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to accord with what can be done and what is given it to do."

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"Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them."

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"Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal."

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"Think on this doctrine,--that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it."

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"How many, once lauded in song, are given over to the forgotten; and how many who sung their praises are clean gone long ago!"

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"Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe."

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"Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after."

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"Let not thy mind run on what thou lackest as much as on what thou hast already."

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"That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before."

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"Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised."

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"Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee."

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"Respect the faculty that forms thy judgments."

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"The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing."

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"Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past."

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"Whatever may befall thee, it was preordained for thee from everlasting."

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"The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself."

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"All things are the same,--familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried."

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"Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good."

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"If it is not seemly, do it not; if it is not true, speak it not."

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"Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything."

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"Remember this,--that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life."

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"In the morning, when thou art sluggish at rousing thee, let this thought be present; "I am rising to a man's work.""

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"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall."

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"He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit."

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"Suit thyself to the estate in which thy lot is cast."

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"Do not think that what is hard for thee to master is impossible for man; but if a thing is possible and proper to man, deem it attainable by thee."

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"Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control."

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"A wrong-doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something."

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"Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation."

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"Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a busybody."

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"Remember this,--that very little is needed to make a happy life."

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"Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee."

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"Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason."

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"Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty."

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"A man's happiness,--to do the things proper to man."

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"The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works."

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"Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear."

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