Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWHe that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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