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• "Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be."

• "Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified."

• "It is better to live rich than to die rich."

• "If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."

• "He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything."

• "Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments."

• "Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others."

• "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."

• "You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company."

• "You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income."

• "Words are but the signs of ideas."

• "When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped."

• "What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."

• "What is easy is seldom excellent."

• "Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess."

• "To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity."

• "To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution."

• "Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms."

• "There are charms made only for distant admiration."

• "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

• "The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."

• "The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking."

• "Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome."

• "No man was ever great by imitation."

• "Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings."

• "Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks."

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