How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

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No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.

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Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

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Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

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All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.

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Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

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Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

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Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

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