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It is never too late to recognize truth and to live by it.
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Living at one's best is constant preparation for instant use.
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The honest, faithful struggler should always realize that failure is but an episode in a true man's life,--never the whole story.
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The knell of lost opportunity is never tolled in this life.
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But the true competition is the competition of the individual with himself,--his present seeking to excel his past.
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If we seek ever to surpass ourselves, we are moving on a uniform line of progress, that gives a harmonious unifying to our growth in all its parts.
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Life is but a succession of opportunities. They are for good or evil,--as we make them.
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Man can develop his self-reliance by seeking constantly to surpass himself.
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Self-confidence sees the possibilities of the individual; self-reliance realizes them.
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To him, defeat is no more than passing through a tunnel is to a traveller,--he knows he must emerge again into the sunlight.