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What you are comes to you.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

The thing I fear most is fear.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.