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• There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
• Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
• Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in…
• Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey…
• Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful,…
• Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
• I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
• The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.
• Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
• Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
• Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
• Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

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