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Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place
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You dehumanize a man as much by returning him to nature - by making him one with rocks, vegetation, and animals - as by turning him into a machine. Both the natural and the mechanical are the opposite of that which is uniquely human. Nature is a self-made
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If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture than you are a victim of it.
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An idea is a feat of association.
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There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
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The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature and are able to live and work with now one, now another, in the ascendant.
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The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
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Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
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There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
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Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.
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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.
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Courage in danger is half the battle.
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All of the significant battles are waged within the self.
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Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
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When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
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Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after.
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Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
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Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way - how many pleasing things are done for you.
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When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.
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To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
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Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: Some day you will meet a
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The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
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Results are what you expect, and consequences are what you get.
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Consciousness of our powers augments them.
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The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.
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It happens to each according to his consciousness, is the Law of Consciousness.
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A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.
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One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout.
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Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
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I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.
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A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Mi
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It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
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A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.
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The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
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Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity
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This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal-intellect suggests one course, and our heart or intuition, another.
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Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle is a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.
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If you are prepared, then you are able to feel confident.
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Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.
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All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, how little so ever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you thi
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