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 Success is a progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined personal
goals.  
 Success is a progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined personal
goals. 
No person is important enough to make me angry.
No person is important enough to make me angry.
 I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are
the gift of fortune, while character comes read more 
 I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are
the gift of fortune, while character comes from within. 
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust read more
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
 Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weave
the web of life; he is read more 
 Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weave
the web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web,
he does to himself. 
 People who have attained things worth having in this world have worked
while others have idled, have perservered while others read more 
 People who have attained things worth having in this world have worked
while others have idled, have perservered while others gave up in despair,
and have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial,
industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life
the success often erroneously attributed to good luck. 
Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere read more
Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.
Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
 It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but
I couldn't give it up read more 
 It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but
I couldn't give it up because by then I was too famous.