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If we seek ever to surpass ourselves, we are moving on a uniform line of progress, that gives a harmonious unifying to our growth in all its parts.
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Life is but a succession of opportunities. They are for good or evil,--as we make them.
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Man can develop his self-reliance by seeking constantly to surpass himself.
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Self-confidence sees the possibilities of the individual; self-reliance realizes them.
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To him, defeat is no more than passing through a tunnel is to a traveller,--he knows he must emerge again into the sunlight.
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If you want to change the world, measure a person by the size of their heart, not the size of their flippers.
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The busiest man needs no more hours of rest than the idler.
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the great thing in all education is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy
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The beginning of wise living lies in the control of the brain by the will; so that the brain may act according to the precepts which the brain itself gives.
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Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.
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Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.
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Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.
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My experience has been that the time to test a true gentleman is to observe him when he is in contact with individuals of a race that is less fortunate than his own.
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Resolution is an act of courage in single instances, and if it becomes a characteristic trait, it is a habit of the mind.
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I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will
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The spirit of personal independence in the women of to-day is sure proof that a change has come.
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What we do modifies us more than what is done to us.
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What you imagine, you will think, and what you think, you will become.
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The fact is that old age is respectable just as long as it asserts itself, maintains its proper rights, and is not enslaved to any one.
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After all is said, if the young people have an earnest purpose in life it is easy to plan a method of living and to carry it out.
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The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
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Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense.
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If I have set my admiration on the poor body, I have given myself up to be a slave; if on my poor possessions, I also make myself a slave.
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Man should make an art of thinking.
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The object of the game of life is to see clearly one’s good and to obliterate all mental pictures of evil.