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"To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility."
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"As only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro, never allow yourself to be swayed by popular opinion."
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"A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes."
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"No girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself."
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"Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your soul."
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"Without being an independent individual, without having an independent mind, you become nothing more than a trivial slave or an obscure shadow!"
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"I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here."
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"She wasn't kind of lady that depended on a man and I think that's what made her so irrestible to them, any man she had loved she wanted ~ and the men that loved her back couldn't handle not being needed, so she showed them the door and grew her own wings as they walked out. Love to her isn't a maybe thing, nor is it attachment and any man whom thinks he will ever own her would be best not to try at all."
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"The only race you are guaranteed to win is the one you run alone."
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"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.... It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
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"Believe in yourself. Carve your own path. Build your own dreams. Be your own hero."
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"The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet."
Money
"It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants."
Greatness
"Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them."
Power
"Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent."
Man
"From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it."
Age
"Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted."
Man
"Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write."
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"Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives."
Happiness
"Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may."
Man
"Please your eye and plague your heart."
Heart
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