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"Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success."

- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Irish Dramatist and Poet

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"Courage is grace under pressure."

- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
American Writer

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"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have."

- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
16th President of the United States

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"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used anonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."

- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
English Novelist

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"The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world."

- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
German philosopher

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""I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything: "I will try" has accomplished wonders."

- George P. Burnham (1868 - 1939)
Politician

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"I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from."

- William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
American Writer

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"You cannot add to the peace and good will of the world if you fail to create an atmosphere of harmony and love right where you live and work."

- Thomas Dreier (1884 - 1976)
American editor, writer, advertising executive, and business theorist.

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"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."

- Epictetus (55AD - 135AD)
Stoic philosopher

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"Don't allow yourself to be intimidated! There is more than one road to joy."

- Author Pascal Bruckner, The Paradox of Love (1948 )
French writer

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