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"Anyone who has gumption knows what it is and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is."
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Personal Development

"Faithfulness to one's word is one of the principles of discipline."
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Personal Development

"Integrity is an eternal virtue we should focus our mind on and not miracles."
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Personal Development

"The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character."
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Personal Development

"It is only the man that delays his gratification that is a man indeed."
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Personal Development

"Character is what can do without success."
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Personal Development

"Trials makes you to develop the qualities of a successful man."
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Personal Development

"Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating. A solid, twenty-two-carat silence all the way through. The Olympian's trap is kept shut, not by an act of willed discretion, but because there's really nothing to say. Goddesses are all of one piece. There's no internal conflict in them. Whereas the lives of people like you and me are one long argument. Desires on one side, woodpeckers on the other. Never a moment of real silence."
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Personal Development

"Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind."
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Personal Development

"Principles are meant to serve people, not people serving to uphold the principle, while harming the people."
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"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."
Habit


"Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses."
Life


"Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life."
Life


"It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser."
Health


"When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory."
Man


"The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored and grant us in the end the gift of sleep."
Life


"If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong."
Joy


"Happiness and goodness, according to canting moralists, stand in the relation of effect and cause. There was never anything less proved or less probable: our happiness is never in our own hands; we inherit our constitution; we stand buffet among friends and enemies; we may be so built as to feel a sneer or an aspersion with unusual keenness and so circumstanced as to be unusually exposed to them; we may have nerves very sensitive to pain, and be afflicted with a disease very painful. Virtue will not help us, and it is not meant to help us."
Happiness


"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."
Courage


"To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and fall."
Courage
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