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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours seem short and the years long.

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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living through it.

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We do not remember days, we remember moments.

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Lessons are not given, they are taken.

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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.

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Even something harsh and difficult is a comfort if we choose it ourselves. If it is imposed on us by others, it is agony.

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I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.

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