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

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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

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So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

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

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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

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In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.

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

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