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History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
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To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
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No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
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Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
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A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
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