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Bear toil and pain, not as if wretched under it, nor as courting pity or admiration.
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Bear toil and pain, not as if wretched under it, nor as courting pity or admiration.
Do not confound yourself by considering the whole of life, and by dwelling upon the multitude and greatness of the pains and troubles to which you may probably be exposed.
If you are beaten off, return again to the effort, and content yourself that your conduct is generally such as becomes a man.
Recollect all you have passed through, all that you have had strength to bear.
To the man who is penetrated with true principles, the shortest, the most common hint is a sufficient memorial to keep him free of sorrow and fear.
No man can hinder the proper work of the mind.
the mind can convert and change everything that impedes its activity into matter for its action; hindrance in its work becomes its real help, and every obstruction makes for its progress
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