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Before success in any man's life he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do.: Napoleon Hill
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.: Tom Bissell, Truth in Oxiana, 2004
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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.: Robert Collier
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.: John Viscount Morley
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.: Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990)

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