It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
HENRY WARD BEECHERHold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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