“Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.”
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“Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.”
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“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
“Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.”
“Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'”
“Be content with what you are, and wish not change nor dread your last day, nor long for it.”
“Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”
“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”
“Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.”
“Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.”
“There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.”
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
“Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely for science is but one.”
“He that does good to another does good also to himself.”
“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.”
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.”
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
“Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.”
“To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.”
“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
“Anger cannot be dishonest.”
“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”
“Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.”