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Francois de Fenelon
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.
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Erich Fromm
A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be given to the question...because the question does not make any sense.
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Josephine demott Robinson, O Magazine, December 2003
My one aim was to do a thing well and to excel if possible.
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Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
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Robert Green Ingersoll
It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
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Roger Babson
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
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Miguel de Cervantes
You may as well expect pears from an elm.
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Wilson Mizner
The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
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Indian Proverb
Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.
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Homer
A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
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Hellen Keller
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
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Roger Zelazny
I stalk my prison like my own ghost...
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