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To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear; and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
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Whether one be fearful or fearless, foolish or wise, troubled or serene, within that soul lies the cause of its own state or states, and never without.
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Do not confound yourself by considering the whole of life, and by dwelling upon the multitude and greatness of the pains and troubles to which you may probably be exposed.
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If we stay in process, within ourselves, in the joy of the doing, we will never choke at the finish line.
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Uncertainty gives fear a chance to get in its deadly work on the imagination and make cowards of us.
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Unclamp, in a word, your intellectual and practical machinery, and let it run free; and the service it will do you will be twice as good.
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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Imperturbability means coolness and presence of mind under all circumstances, calmness amid storm, clearness of judgment in moments of grave peril, immobility, impassiveness, or, to use an old and expressive word, phlegm.
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Take no thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
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Let the day's work suffice; live for it, regardless of what the future has in store, believing that to-morrow should take thought for the things of itself.