It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

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The most beautiful words of love are told in silence for a look.

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Education, Disappoint, Teaching And Education

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Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.

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All thoughts start from emotions.

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You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

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The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.

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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

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Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

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Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.

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