"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."

Aristotle on discipline
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"A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time."

Giacomini, Lynwood L. on belief
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"God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on prayer
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present."

Angelis, Barbara De on anger
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"He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees."

Franklin, Benjamin on peace
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"When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us."

Harris, Sidney J. on disagreements
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"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own."

Disraeli, Benjamin on friends and friendship
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"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."

Boese, Paul on forgiveness
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"Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends."

Beecher, Henry Ward on forgiveness
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"A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying."

Burroughs, John on blame
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"The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process."

Bryant, Jean on fear
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"Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors."

Kipling, Rudyard on anxiety
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"When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world."

Ziglar, Zig on children
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