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"You win minds through your brilliance. You win hearts through your tenderness. You win souls through your benevolence."

"Spend your time with the people who talk about the stars because to whichever place you put your mind in, you will move to that place! Stars pull you to the stars; mud pulls you to the mud!"

"What you do teaches faster, and has a lasting impression, far beyond what you say."

"He who illumines one has begun illumining the world."

"When the wind likes a path, the weeds around that path will tremble all day long!"

"To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas!"
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"Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it."

"A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it."

"Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire."

"Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves."

"In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at."

"The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess."
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