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The most important guideline when it comes to argument is the golden rule. If someone were addressing your point, what tone, what overall approach would you find persuasive and want her to use? Whatever that is, do it yourself.
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The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.
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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
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The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need.
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The proverb warns; ''Don't bite the hand that feeds you.'' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
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The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.
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The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.
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The size of your problem is defined by your efforts to convince yourself that it's not a problem.
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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
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The spiritual message is we lose our lives in pleasing others; if you're the good child who pleases Mommy and Daddy but internalizes anger, you're setting yourself up for disease.
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The surest way to establish your credit is to work yourself into the position of not needing any.
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The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, ''Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.'' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wish
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The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
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The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
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The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
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The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.
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The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
The Chronicles of Narnia (1950) The Magicians Nephew (1955), Ch. 10 : The First Jo
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