"The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes."

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"The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes."

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"A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all."

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"Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster."

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"There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place."

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"A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use."

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"One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more."

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"The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow."

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