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«Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.»
«He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart»
«Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?»
«For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.»
«Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.»
«Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.»
«I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.»
«It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude»
«Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.»
«I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.»

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