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“Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.”

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... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.

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Men can bear all things but good days.

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Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

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I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.

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No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!

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... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.

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All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

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The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.

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if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.

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