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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. - Author object (57)

A great man is always willing to be little. - Author object (57)

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself. - Author object (57)

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for. - Author object (57)

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. - Author object (57)

In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him. - Author object (57)

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. - Author object (57)

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased. - Author object (57)

You become what you think about all day long. - Author object (57)

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. - Author object (57)

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not. - Author object (57)

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide. - Author object (57)

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. - Author object (57)

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses. - Author object (57)

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself. - Author object (57)

There is creative reading as well as creative writing. - Author object (57)

Nothing external to you has any power over you. - Author object (57)

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. - Author object (57)

Love, and you shall be loved. - Author object (57)

You are constantly invited to be what you are. - Author object (57)