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By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the…

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Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by…
If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he…
No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him,…
A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps…
We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted…
We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is…
The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the…
Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.
Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a…
By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of…

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To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them. — Jacob Bronowski
By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of… — Charles Horton Cooley
I shared a bed with my sister, Grace, until I was seventeen years old. She was afraid to sleep alone and would… — Lena Dunham
Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters. — Calvin Trillin
Ill-luck is, in nine cases out of ten, the result of taking pleasure first and duty second, instead of duty first and… — Theodore T. Munger
The highest point of humility consists in not merely acknowledging one's abjection, but in taking pleasure therein, not from any want of… — Saint Francis de Sales
Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present. Health and hope grew strong… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Bilbo lay with his eyes shut, gasping an taking pleasure in the feel of the fresh air again, and hardly noticing the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being… — Idries Shah
Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it… — Ernest Hemingway
It is a remarkable fact that we can never read or hear of the labors which our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ… — Heber J. Grant

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