"Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed."
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"What is not started today is never finished tomorrow."
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"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being."
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"The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become."
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"To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking."
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"Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful."
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"If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words."
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"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."
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"The best slave is the one who thinks he is free."
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"We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden."
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"Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be."
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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."
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"This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us."
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"I am not omniscient, but I know a lot."
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"One is never deceived; one deceives oneself."
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"Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it."
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"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving."
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"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."
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"There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly)."
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"Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting."
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