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"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear not absence of fear."
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"Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid."
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"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you.
This is the principal difference between a dog and man."
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"Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day."
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"Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied."
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"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience."
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"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
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"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in 7 years."
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"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it."
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āCourage is not the absence of fear; it is the ability to act in the presence of fear.ā
āI learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.ā
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