Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one: men know him not-and to know not is to care not for.
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Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.
Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.
The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.
The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.
If you love something let it go, and if it comes back - that doesn't mean a damn thing; it read more
If you love something let it go, and if it comes back - that doesn't mean a damn thing; it can just leave you again later.
Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us read more
Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...
