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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Control Freedom Goals Life Win Worth
In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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Goals Influence Lie Life Please Purpose
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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Believe Beyond Control Freedom Happiness Win
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
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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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Account Giving Inspirational Life Positive
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
Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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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
Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

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