The wise man accepts his pain, endures it, but does not add to it.
Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.
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Accept things to which fate binds you, love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
To offend a strong man, tell him a lie. To offend a weak man, tell him the truth.
What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.
What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.
It never ceases to amaze me: We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
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I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.
Man’s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.
The period is now arrived, in which either they or we must change our sentiments, or one or both must fall.
The lion doesn't turn around when the small dog barks.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Howsoever you may repair it, a rift is a rift.
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
Man is a universe in little.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
Impossible is just an opinion.
There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness for the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, in you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.
