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• Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."

• "Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe."

• "Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching."

• "When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."

• "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."

• "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

• "Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast."

• "There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents."

• "The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money."

• "Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits."

• "Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning."

• "It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness."

• "In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."

• "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

• "How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened."

• "Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."

• "Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."

• "Delay is preferable to error."

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