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“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
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“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
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“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
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"Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string."
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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
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“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
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"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."
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It is better to be alone than in bad company.
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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In skating over thin ice, our safety is on our speed.
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