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“There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.”
“Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.”
“If you can't argue both sides, you can't argue.”
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.”
“Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.”
“What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals! .”
“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
“Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.”
“Be patient and calm; no one can catch fish in anger.”
“How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!”
“I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.”
“There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.”
“Whatever you decide to do, make sure it makes you happy.”
“If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.”
“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”
“The more something threatens your identity, the more you will avoid it.”
“The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.”
“Where there is unity there is always victory.”
“We're kept from our goal not by obstacles, but by a clear path to a lesser goal.”
“A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read.”
“The world doesn't always give you want, but it often gives you what you need.”
“Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater.”
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