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If you think you can

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
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The more we do, the

The more we do, the more we can do.
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To be capable of steady

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
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Even in the common affairs

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others
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We often choose a friend

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress -- for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
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Envy, among other ingredients, has

Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.
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To think ill of mankind,

To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
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Perhaps the best cure for

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not this gives us no concern -- why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be
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Fashon is the abortive issue

Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath -- tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.
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Prosperity is a great teacher

Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.
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