"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
-Henry Ward Beecher
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"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith."
-Henry Ward Beecher
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"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself."
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"A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never."
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"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope."
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"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
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"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."
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"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature."
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"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."
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"The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing."
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"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."
-Helen Keller
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