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My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine a...more

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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

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Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby...more

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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.