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Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

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A useless life is an early death.

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Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

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Common sense is the genius of humanity.

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To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

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In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

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The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

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I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

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There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

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A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

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To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

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One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

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Live dangerously and you live right.

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I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

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Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

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The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

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