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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Great Born Thrust Greatness
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Isolation is aloneness that feels forced upon you, like a punishment. Solitude is aloneness you choose and embrace. Amazing things can be achieved, if we covert our feelings of Isolation to Solitude.

Isolation Aloneness Forced Punishment
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Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.
Pain Heart Despair Wisdom
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I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

Accept People Inspire Dwell
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Happy Depend Upon
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Ultimate Life Power Survival
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

Subject Dictate System Engage
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Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you.

Respect Altar Profit Foot
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I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

Been Wisdom Driven Overwhelming
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I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

Platform Best Bargain Have
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In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.

Pain Forget Drop Wisdom
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I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the sky and say there is no God.

Might Possible Could Look
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I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Hard Wishful Nerve Reality
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There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food.
Nature Single Angle Eye
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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Man Wild Beast World
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All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Human Upon That Society
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When I am employed in serving others, I do not look upon myself as conferring favors, but as paying debts. I have received much kindness from men to whom I shall never have an opportunity of making the least direct returns; and numberless mercies from God, who is infinitely above being benefited by our services. Those kindnesses from men I can, therefore, only return on their fellow-men, and I can only show my gratitude for those mercies from God by a readiness to help His other children.

Receive Return Favor Much
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Gentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth.

Home Earth Will Our
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Men all pay homage to what understanding understands, but no one understands enough to rely upon what understanding does not understand and thereby come to understand.

Homage Understanding Upon Play
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No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.

Great Spoil Possibility Most
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Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Reach Goal Believe Plan
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If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

Offer Term Impose Strength
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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Freedom. Mind Gate Lock
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As a general rule, I do not think it appropriate for judges to heap either praise or censure upon a legislative measure that comes before them, lest it be thought that their validation, invalidation, or interpretation of it is driven by their desire to expand or constrict what they personally approve or disapprove as a matter of policy.

Judge Desire Matter Rule
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This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Life Virtue Honour Poor
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Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.

About Affairs Bring Britain
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However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Upon Speak Word Good
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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Raise Feel Goal Task
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Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.

Across Carry Emotion Intelligence
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He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.

Agreed Conversation He Must
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I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

Respect Insist Myself Everybody
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You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.

Angry Bitter Cancer Host
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Cancer Host Anger Fire
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Among a large class, there seemed to be a dependence upon the government for every conceivable thing. The members of this class had little ambition to create a position for themselves, but wanted the federal officials to create one for them. How many times I wished then and have often wished since, that by some power of magic, I might remove the great bulk of these people into the country districts and plant them upon the soil – upon the solid and never deceptive foundation of Mother Nature, where all nations and races that have ever succeeded have gotten their start – a start that at first may be slow and toilsome, but one that nevertheless is real.

Large Dependency Ambition Creat
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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Growth Effort Work Depend
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Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Rest Error Truth Knowledge
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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

Hang Talent Dangerous Great
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“If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.”

Parent Children Greatest Blessings
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“Happiness simply cannot be relied upon as a measure of success.”

Happiness Simple Success Measure
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I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.

What Does Matter Fate
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Life can be much broader. You can embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.

Life Broad Embrace Change
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

Always Anything Believe Everyone
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.

Raise Invention Eyes
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Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Because Blame Common Determines
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There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Contradict One Thing Only Only One Thing
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His name shall be called Wonderful, that means His name shall be full of wonders. It is the gift of God upon His Son, and forever that gift is in place.

Name Wonderful Shall Wonder
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I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

Had Blues Shoes Until
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Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

Our Limitations Success Based
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Shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you’re just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.

Shake Erroneous Notion Embrace
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The more they persecute me, the more the favour of God upon my life. The more they persecute me, the more God will increase my blessing.

Persecute Favour God Life
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