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[Transcriber's Note: Sidenote quotations from the preceeding chapter are gathered in this section.]
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. --Emerson.
Gentle words, quiet words, are, after all, the most powerful words. --Washington Gladden.
Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. --Thoreau.
Nothing will be mended by complaints.--Johnson.
Peace! Peace! How sweet the word and tender! Its very sound should wrangling discord still.--Nathan Haskell Dole.
The Spartans did not inquire how many the enemy are, but where they are.--Agis II.
The man in whom others believe is a power, but if he believes in himself he is doubly powerful.--Willis George Emerson.
The secrecy of success is constancy to purpose.--Disraeli.
Men talk about the indignity of doing work that is beneath them, but the only indignity that they should care for is the indignity of doing nothing.--W. R. Haweis.
Share your happiness with others, but keep your troubles to yourself. --Patrick Flynn.
Neither days, nor lives can be made noble or holy by doing nothing in them.--Ruskin.
Use thy youth as the springtime, wherein thou oughtest to plant and sow all provisions for a long and happy life.--Walter Raleigh.
To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands.--Madame Swetchine.
When a firm decisive spirit is recognized, it is curious to see how the space clears around a man and leaves him room and freedom.--John Foster.
That person is blest who does his best and leaves the rest, so do not worry.--A. E. Winship.
Work is the best thing to make us love life.--Ernest Renan.
If you want to be miserable, think about yourself,--about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay to you, and what people think of you.--Charles Kingsley.
Aspiration carries one half the way to one's desire.--Elizabeth Gibson.
The best thing is to do well what one is doing at the moment.--Pittacus.
To work and not to genius I owe my success.--Daniel Webster.
No thought is beautiful which is not just, and no thought can be just, that is not founded on truth.--Joseph Addison.
The loss of self-respect is the only true beggary.--John Lancaster Spalding.