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There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.

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Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.

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A teacher affects eternity; He can never tell where his influence stops.

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Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

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Doctors pour drugs of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, into patients of whom they know nothing.

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Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

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I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.

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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion.

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Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare

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Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

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