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The brain can be trained, as the hand and eye can be trained; it can be made as obedient as a sporting dog, and by similar methods.
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Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
128
Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.
129
If we would be great, and good, and useful, we must pay the price. And remember that when we get down to the fundamental principles of truth, nature draws no colour line.
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I want you to make up your minds that you are going to be more nearly perfect, are going to put more manly and womanly strength into the preparation of your lessons each day, that you may be more useful.
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Our ability to make the world better depends entirely upon our ability to use every opportunity to make ourselves better.
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The more you are and the more you do, the richer your life, the greater your joy.
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If we work together, there is nothing we cannot do and no dream we cannot achieve.
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When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful.
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The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
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Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.
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The vision and action must go hand in hand.
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I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character.
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Each halt in his progress has been but a pause before a mighty leap forward.
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Life is a fair field, and the right will prosper if we stand by our guns.
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No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
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if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours
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Let all our people, leaving behind them the battlefields of dead issues, move forward and in their strength of liberty and the restored Union win the grander victories of peace.
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A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it.
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Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.
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Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
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And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of our desires will burst into glorious fruition ere long.
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The race is never over. The journey has no port. The adventure never ends because we are always on our way.
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First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.
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Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough.