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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

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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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Attention Belong Business Concern Focus True
Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Appointment Arrive Business Event Happen
In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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Adversity Difficult Finding Friendship Prosperity
Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Abandonment Break Up Let Go Togetherness Worth
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 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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Defeat Fear Gain Seek Truth Victory
You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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Control Happiness Inspirational Life Power Secret
Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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Demand Happen Inspirational Satisfaction
When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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Acceptance Attitude Happen Ignorance Power
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Book Poet Reading Writing
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
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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Angry Disturb Master Permit Person Yourself
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
All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Acceptance Heaven Life Man Religion Tolerance
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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One Liner Philosophy Reality Sustain
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Company Friendship Key People Presence

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

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