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rushes by so swiftly and rapidly that with very few exceptions life ceases for the rest of us just when we are getting ready for it.
“No man is free who is not master of himself.”
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“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being. And we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers, and benefactors, obeying the Almighty effort, and advancing on Chaos and the Dark.”
― We Are the Builders of Our Fortunes: Success through Self-Reliance
― We Are the Builders of Our Fortunes: Success through Self-Reliance
“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
― Self-Reliance
― Self-Reliance
“You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“First say to yourself what you would be;
and then do what you have to do.”
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and then do what you have to do.”
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