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Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

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But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.

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In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of effort is the measure of the results.

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The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, what is most essential of all, will-stubborn will.

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To him who is determined it remains only to act.

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Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.

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True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn

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Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits.

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To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

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All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

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