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Every dog is entitled to one bite. When people ask me if I have any spare change, I tell them I have it at home in my spare wallet. No man ever yet became great by imitation. Music touches places beyond our touching. The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone. We change, whether we like it or not. He who begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin. We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are. A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints. Woman's place is in the wrong. Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. In life it is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best. All decisions are made on insufficient evidence. There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble, and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger. Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed. All forms of fear produce fatigue. Grow up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another. Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime; and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time. Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers. The world is my country, the human race is my race. The spirit of man is my god, the future of man is my heaven.
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