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“Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain?”
“You can succeed if nobody else believes it but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.”
“If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.”
“Cautious careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing never can bring about a reform.”
“With every physical pain my moral fibre unravels a little.”
“Everybody wants to do something to help but nobody wants to be first.”
“I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.”
“It is not easy to be a pioneer-but oh it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment even the worst moment for all the riches in the world.”
“We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of self.”
“Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.”
“One may understand the cosmos but never the ego the self is more distant than any star.”
“Every man stamps his value on himself ... man is made great or small by his own will.”
“We judge ourselves by our motives and others by their actions.”
“The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.”
“There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.”
“Let us not forget that among [women's] rights is the right to speak freely.”
“Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may he will only feel satisfaction as he is satisfied in himself.”
“The widening of woman's sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it and if the world scoff let it scoff-if it sneer let it sneer.”
“When people say: she's got everything I've only one answer: I haven't had tomorrow.”
“Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy.”
