Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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