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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

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In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward

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None of us are responsible for all the things that happen to us, but we are responsible for the way we act when they do happen.

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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

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A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude or the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security.

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No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how much lying for private profit is to be permitted by law?

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Business today consists in persuading crowds.

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