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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment

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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

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Human nature is not of itself vicious.

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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

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It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.

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It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.

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Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.

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Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, "I did not give it to the man, but to humanity."

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It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.

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If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

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