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If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

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You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

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For a significant man
woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.

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To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.

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Heaven endures and the earth last a long time because they do not live for themselves.

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We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

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It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

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