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One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.

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I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.

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When God intends great mercy for his people, the first thing he doth is to set them a praying.

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It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat for our salvation; but no one eats of this flesh without having first adored it . . . and not only do we not sin in thus adoring it, but we would be sinning if we did not do so.

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And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes.

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If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.

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What should be shrunken must first be stretched.

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No one can go back, but everyone can go forward. And tommorow, when the Sun rises, all you will have to say to yourself is: I am going to think of this day as the first day of my life.

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Spring's first conviction is a wealth beyond its whole experience.

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To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.

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All obedience begins in the affections, and nothing in religion is done right, that is not done there first.

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I was the first one in the gym, and the last one to leave.

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My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.

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First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.

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Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.

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Those whom God will employ are first struck with a sense of their unworthiness to be employed.

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I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.

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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.

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I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks You teach me how a beggar should be answered.

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It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

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