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"We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may."
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"Once you have produced your best self, then you will be able to produce new seeds and fruits after your kind."
"Your everyday actions will define you and your virtue."
"Life reality tells us that to grow physically, you first need to grow inwardly."
"Be the master of your life."
"Locate things that motivate you and surround yourself with people that inspire you."
"When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them."
"We live in a world where people are so busy trying to find someone that's "good enough" for them, that they have failed to stop and ask themselves if they are in fact good enough for other people! This is the result of a feeling of false entitlement that has been instilled in the minds of people today. "Everyone" deserves "the best" from the "Universe" however, nobody is teaching anybody to stop and try to become the best for their own selves and for other people. When everybody thinks they are the best, everybody falls short of the best that they can actually be."
"The perceiving our own weaknesses enables us to give others excellent advice, but it does not teach us to to reform ourselves."
"It does seem - well, difficult - to be at the mercy of some gross, unshaven stranger before you can begin to be yourself."
"Now stand in the corner, and think about what you've done!"
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"That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds."
"We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness."
"Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom."
"Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best."
"Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it."
"Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it."
"The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence."
"The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it."
"Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in."
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