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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author
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"Let me resolve to be virtuous, that I may be happy, that I may please Him, who is delighted to see me happy. Amen."

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet seem quite clear, but something that she could achieve stirred her as with an approaching murmur which would soon gather distinctness."

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Joshua Reynolds Painter
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"He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated."

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