"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement."

Mcclellan, Foster C. on achievement
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"Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."

Marden, Orison Swett on achievement
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"Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."

Bacon, Francis on age and aging
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"Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order."

Bacon, Francis on discretion
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"God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure."

Bacon, Francis on gardening and gardens   

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"Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper."

Bacon, Francis on hope
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"Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us."

Bacon, Francis on humankind
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"Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul."

Bacon, Francis on patience
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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

Bacon, Francis on atheism
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"Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue."

Bacon, Francis on prosperity
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"Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested."

Bacon, Francis on books - reading
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"A good conscience is a continual feast."

Bacon, Francis on science   

"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world."

Bacon, Francis on courtesy
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"Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence."

Blake, William on opposites   

"I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on reason   

"I want death to find me planting my cabbage"

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on death   

"People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned."

Baldwin, James on abuse
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"It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless."

Baldwin, James on persecution   

"Of all the infirmities we have, the most savage is to despise our being."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on self-pity
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"I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on truth   

"Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on wisdom
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"We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on age and aging
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"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence."

Poe, Edgar Allan on self-confidence
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."

Aurelius, Marcus on cooperation
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"I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on fear
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"Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."

Maugham, W. Somerset on age and aging   

"It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."

Maugham, W. Somerset on expectation
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"For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life."

Maugham, W. Somerset on fiction   

"Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult."

Maugham, W. Somerset on common sense   

"We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly."

Twain, Mark on family
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"All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on fame
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"My downfall raises me to infinite heights."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on failure
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"Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure."

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart on failure
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"You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat/ But to lie there-that's a disgrace."

Cooke, E. V. on failure
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"Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure."

Eliot, George on failure
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"We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life."

Gardner, John W. on failure
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"Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities."

Hill, Napoleon on failure
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"When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal."

Hill, Napoleon on failure
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"Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on."

Hobson, Tom on failure
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"They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor."

Hoffer, Eric on failure
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