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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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52
Surely the United States Senate is big enough to take self-criticism and self-appraisal.
Margaret Chase Smithverified·Declaration of Conscience (remarks in the United States Senate)·June 1, 1950
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Give others and yourself more credit. It just happened, you witnessed it, you just did it, believe it.
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They may be truths to me, but don’t think that that makes them mine… because you can’t own a truth.
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Life is not a popularity contest. Be brave, take the hill but first, answer the question, “What is my hill?”
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It’s just as important where we are not as it is where we are.
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We have created a fictitious ceiling, a roof, to our expectations of ourselves, a limit — where we think it’s all too good to be true.
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Retire yourself into yourself, but first prepare yourself there to receive yourself: it were a folly to trust yourself in your own hands, if you cannot govern yourself.
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Moreover men commonly deceive themselves in respect of the love which they imagine others bear them, nor can ever be sure of it until they have put it to the proof.
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Therefore, if he who rules a principality cannot recognize evils until they are upon him, he is not truly wise; and this insight is given to few.
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Therefore it must be inferred that good counsels, whencesoever they come, are born of the wisdom of the prince, and not the wisdom of the prince from good counsels.
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a friend should be like money tried before being required, not found faulty in our need
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Whereas among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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We say so because we feel that what we love is not in your will, but above it.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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To be great is to be misunderstood
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Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity. Pride is the burden of a foolish person.
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It doesn't matter to me any longer how long I live, what matters to me most is how I live.
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Most men, when they repent, oblige their friends to share the bitterness of that repentance.
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It never seems to them that they have served enough; they have a fine impatience of their virtues.
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Human judgment is never unerring, and is rarely regarded as otherwise than wrong by the unsuccessful party in the contest.