All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
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They conquer who believe they can.
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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that.
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Here is a day now before me A day is a fortune and an estate who loses a day loses life.
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The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones they are for what they are they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose. It is perfect in every moment of its existence.
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