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"It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done."
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"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind."
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"Every record that you do man, is sooo different in every way."
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"Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!"
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"Speak slowly, Michael. He is an honourable man."
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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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"I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"A man may build a complicated piece of mechanism, or pilot a steamboat, but not more than five out of ten know how the apple got into the dumpling."
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"It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action."
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"Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action."
Power
"Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us."
Hope
"The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual."
Growth
"The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve."
Man
"The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted."
Reason
"The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors."
Duty
"The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear."
Peace
"Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step."
Life
"I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!"
Man
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