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Why then are you anxious about that which belongs to others?

Wretch, you are carrying about a god with you, and you know it not.

I am by Nature made for my own good; not for my own evil.

If you have assumed a character beyond your strength, you have both played a poor figure in that, and neglected one that is within your powers.

If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.

If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.

Whats'ever 'appens to you--whats'ever--you'd be a princess all the same--an' nothin' couldn't make you nothin' different.

Fully impressed with the gravity of the duties that confront me and mindful of my weakness, I should be appalled if it were my lot to bear unaided the responsibilities which await me.

I accept with humility the honor which the American people have conferred upon me.

Optimism that does not count the cost is like a house builded on sand.

At the beginning I was only a little mass of possibilities. It was my teacher who unfolded and developed them.

My saddest and most genuine sorrows are apt to be but transient regrets.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer

Conscious of my own deficiency, I cannot enter on these duties without great anxiety for the result.

Less possessed of your confidence in advance than any of my predecessors, I am deeply conscious of the prospect that I shall stand more and oftener in need of your indulgence.

Have none of my Fellow Creatures an equitable Right to any Part which is called mine?

Running in this Road I found many like myself; and we associated in that which is the reverse of true Friendship.

in the exercise of this high power, we must be ever on our guard, lest we erect our prejudices into legal principles

You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernal, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart one day, and then the rough burr will fall off.

There’s such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I’m such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn’t be half so interesting.

Well, I don’t want to be anyone but myself, even if I go uncomforted by diamonds all my life

I’m not a bit changed--not really. I’m only just pruned down and branched out. The real me--back here--is just the same.

if you see that anything is within man's power, and part of his proper work, conclude that you also may attain to it

Surely the United States Senate is big enough to take self-criticism and self-appraisal.

Give others and yourself more credit. It just happened, you witnessed it, you just did it, believe it.