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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.

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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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Acceptance Fight Freedom Life Limitation Work
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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Aspire Extraordinary Inspirational Time Vague Wise
Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Freedom Inspirational Live Right Satisfaction
Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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Alone Appearance Impression Life People Strength
When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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Angry Fault Forget Man Offend Study Yourself
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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Evil Laugh Speak True Yourself
Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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Control Hold Inspirational Positive Stop True
It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Handle Happen Inspirational Matter Reaction
Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Appointment Arrive Business Event Happen
Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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Breathe Conservation Eat God Preference Thinking
Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Goodness Inspirational Life Seek Wisdom Yourself
A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Anchor Hope Inspirational Life Ride Ship
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Attitude Concern Human Nature People Thinking
Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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Endure Introduce Life Opportunity Resource Strength
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Impossible Learning Man Thinking
To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Deed Inspirational Life Live Virtue

No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.

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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.

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