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The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.
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902
The world is advanced only by those who more than fill their present places.
903
You are to become a creator, not a competitor.
904
You can do what you want to do, and it is your right and privilege to follow the business or avocation which will be most congenial and pleasant.
905
Where there is great love there are always miracles.
906
The spirit of liberty is the sovereign balm for every injury which our institutions may receive.
907
Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives usually far within his limits; he possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.
908
The transformation, moreover, is a chronic one: the new level of energy becomes permanent.
909
Arbitration is the true method of settlement of international as well as local or individual differences.
910
There are some national questions in the solution of which patriotism should exclude partisanship.
911
Thus worthy work carries with it the hope of pleasure in rest, the hope of the pleasure in our using what it makes, and the hope of pleasure in our daily creative skill.
912
When the interests of mankind are at stake, they will obey with joy the man whom they believe to be wiser than themselves.
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By holding the representative responsible only to the people, and exempting him from all other influences, we elevate the character of the constituent and quicken his sense of responsibility to his country.