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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
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What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it;
boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
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What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
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We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.
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We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.
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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
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We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves
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We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
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We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.
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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.
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Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
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Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
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Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
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Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being
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Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
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To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
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To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities
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To create something you must be something.
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To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state
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