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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of others.

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It is not a lucky word, this name "impossible"; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.

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Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.

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Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.

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A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts as the results of sudden impulses and accident, than of the reason of which we so much boast.

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Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything.

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Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

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One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose.

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God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.

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The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - and him for nothing.

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