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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
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Successful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do. The successful people don’t always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.
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We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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One of the greatest of a great man’s qualities is success; ‘t is the result of all the others; ‘t is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
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Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess ’em.
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Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.
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We can’t all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
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When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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