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The brain can be trained, as the hand and eye can be trained; it can be made as obedient as a sporting dog, and by similar methods.
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Man is but a reed, weakest in nature, but a reed which thinks.
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What we do modifies us more than what is done to us.
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The spirit of personal independence in the women of to-day is sure proof that a change has come.
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To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature: to make beautiful things has more.
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Your life will never be a straight path.
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If you love me you will; and if you do not, I shall never love myself.
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Love is a terrible word, and I should blush to death if anything but a letter accused me on't.
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Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense.
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I am by Nature made for my own good; not for my own evil.
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Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.
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Nothing stands between man and his highest ideals and every desire of his heart, but doubt and fear.
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The object of the game of life is to see clearly one’s good and to obliterate all mental pictures of evil.
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Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.
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One should always follow a denial with an affirmation.
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Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
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Optimism that does not count the cost is like a house builded on sand.
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Yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.
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You are good when you strive to give of yourself.
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You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
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No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
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The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
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She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world
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It is not always recognized that the work itself is a great educator, and that acute cleverness in the line of work to which he is fitted comes to the worker.
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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