Things do not change, we change.

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Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

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Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

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What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

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Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.

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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

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Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.

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Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it but as I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is.

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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

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The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

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