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If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives. Robert South

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage....

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. Hemingway

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies. Philip Dormer Chesterfield

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. Longfellow

Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Ralph Waldo Trine