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Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our g...more

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Excellence encourages one about life generally it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

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We learn to restrain ourselves as we get older. We keep apart when we have quarrelled, express ourselves in well-bred phrases, and in this way preserv...more

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The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

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Our deeds still travel with us from afar and what we have been makes us what we are.

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Decide on what you think is right and stick to it.

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

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The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

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I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be bes...more

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Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

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You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

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Bodily haste and exertion usually leave our thoughts very much at the mercy of our feelings and imagination.

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Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle.

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The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past.