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A thing either is what it appears to be or it is not, but yet appears to be or it is, but does not appear to be or it is not, and does not appear to be.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.
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In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life's purpose.
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Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths.
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-….when things seem to have reached that stage, merely say “I won’t play any longer”, and take your departure but if you stay, stop lamenting.
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Don't be concerned with other people's impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.
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When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
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O slavish man! will you not bear with your own brother, who has God for his Father, as being a son from the same stock, and of the same high descent? But if you chance to be placed in some superior station, will you presently set yourself up for a tyrant?
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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time, nor does it take away the freedom of speech which proceeds from justice but it gives to us the knowledge of what is just and lawful, separating from them the unjust and refuting them.
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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit give it nothing which may tend to its increase.
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We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.
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Wish that everything should come about just as it does.
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When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the fact is that some of us are wild beasts of a larger size, while others are little animals, malignant and petty.
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No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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If you wish to write, write.
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What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events.
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