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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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Personal Development
"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
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Personal Development
"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
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Personal Development
"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
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Personal Development
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
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Personal Development
"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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Personal Development
"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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Personal Development
"Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?) worthy of being known."
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Personal Development
"A human being is only breath and shadow."
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Personal Development
"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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"Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history."
Inspirational
"When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions."
Control
"In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent."
Talent
"In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them."
Democracy
"If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated."
History
"In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money."
Money
"As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching."
Change
"The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples."
Education
"The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there."
Money
"Let us banish fear."
Fear
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