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If you commit a crime, you're guilty.
If you commit a crime, you're guilty.
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.
Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.
If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.
If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.
It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere.
It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere.
 A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and
fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.  
 A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and
fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear. 
Private victories precede public victories.
Private victories precede public victories.
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
 When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times read more 
 When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was
not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.