"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
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"Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold."
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"Always do what you are afraid to do."
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"In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs."
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"Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories."
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"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."
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"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."
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"Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet."
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"Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change."
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"The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members"
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"Patience and fortitude conquer all things."
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"We live in succession, in division, in parts and particles. Meantime, within man, is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal One."
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"People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere."
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"Nobody can bring you peace but yourself."
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"I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me."
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"Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion."
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"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."
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"People only see what they are prepared to see."
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"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine."
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"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer."
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