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A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
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An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
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As an instructor, you must be able to distinguish between poor performance caused by lack of ability or aptitude on the part of the student and poor performance caused by lack of effort. You should treat the first with patience and the latter with firmness. You must never apply sarcasm and ridicule.
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Beware of the person of one book.
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Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
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Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
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Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
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''A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal.'' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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A famous person is often remembered for the ability to take from mankind rather than for his ability to give to mankind.
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A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
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A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
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