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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
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Personal Development
"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
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Personal Development
"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
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Personal Development
"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."
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Personal Development
"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."
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Personal Development
"Give light and people will find the way."
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Personal Development
"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."
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Personal Development
"You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like."
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Personal Development
"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
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Personal Development
"We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them."
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"An older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years."
Writing
"Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them."
People
"Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse."
City
"Heredity is an omnibus in which all our ancestors ride and every now and then one of them puts his head out and embarrasses us."
Biology
"The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God."
Humility
"The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one."
Duty
"Carve every word before you let it fall."
Word
"A general flavour of mild decay but nothing local as one may say."
Atmosphere
"For me at least there came moments when faith wavered. But there is the great lesson and the great triumph: keep the fire burning until by and by out of the mass of sordid details there comes some result."
Perseverance
"Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow."
Soul
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