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The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.
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Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.
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Insist on yourself; never imitate...Every great man is a unique.
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The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
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