If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

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It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.

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All theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life.

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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.

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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

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