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Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

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My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.

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Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.

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Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.

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Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals.

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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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