But in solitude their head is upright and pure above the dark mob.

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  Do not be proud! Your thoughts are not yours alone! They live in others.

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  In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

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  One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

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  I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.

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  To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

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  Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear.

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