It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

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You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us.

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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

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The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

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If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.

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I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.

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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

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