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"Words are but the signs of ideas."

"All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil."

"What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more."

"Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments."

"Like an image in a dream the world is troubled by love, hatred, and other poisons. So long as the dream lasts, the image appears to be real; but on awaking it vanishes."

"The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down."

"The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities."

"Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen."

"From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life."

"Reproof on her lips, but a smile in her eyes."

"Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be."

"Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope."

"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."

"If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."

"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome."

"Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror, or to beset life with supernumerary distresses."

"Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings."

"To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly."

"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified."

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