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“It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.”
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“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony.”
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“Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.”
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“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
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“You will find it less easy to unroot faults than to choke them by gaining virtues. Do not think of your faults, still less of others faults; in every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; rejoice in it and as you can, try to imitate it; and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.”
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