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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!"

"If you submit to your gift, you will become known and influential."
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"The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes."

"A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all."

"There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity."

"Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster."

"There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place."

"Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant."
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