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Sorrow purifies and deepens the soul, and the extremity of sorrow is the prelude to Truth.
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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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Cease your complaining and fretting; none of these things which you blame are the cause of your poverty; the cause is within yourself, and where the cause is, there is the remedy.
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Man is a thought-being, and his life and character are determined by the thoughts in which he habitually dwells.
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Idleness and a strong will cannot go together, and procrastination is a total barrier to the acquisition of purposeful action.
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Give scrupulous attention to the duty of the present moment.
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Concentration is an aid to the doing of something; it is not the doing of something in itself.
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To be able to do a thing, you must begin to do it, and keep on doing it until the thing is mastered.
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If he is perplexed, unhappy, restless, or wretched, let him look to himself, for there and nowhere else is the source of all his trouble.
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Reverie is a loose dreaming into which a man falls; meditation is a strong, purposeful thinking into which a man rises.
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Nothing comes unbidden; where the shadow is, there also is the substance.
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There are a thousand other instances in which application has conquered all obstacles, and proved that nothing which the mind has set itself to endure is difficult.
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Misfortunes press hardest on those who are unacquainted with them: the yoke feels heavy to the tender neck.
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Great men, I say, often rejoice at crosses of fortune just as brave soldiers do at wars.
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Fortune lashes and mangles us: well, let us endure it: it is not cruelty, it is a struggle, in which the oftener we engage the braver we shall become.
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Do not, I beg you, dread those things which the immortal gods apply to our minds like spurs: misfortune is virtue's opportunity.
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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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Discourse no more of what a good man should be; but be one.
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if you see that anything is within man's power, and part of his proper work, conclude that you also may attain to it
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Recollect all you have passed through, all that you have had strength to bear.
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If you are beaten off, return again to the effort, and content yourself that your conduct is generally such as becomes a man.
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If you want liberty you yourselves must strike the blow. If you must be free you must become so through your own effort, through your own initiative.
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The world does not count races and nations that have nothing.
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If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.
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To me, a man has no master but God. Man in his authority is a sovereign lord.