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"Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not."
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"These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."

"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."

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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."
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