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Know that life is not fair and that you will fail often.
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Life is filled with circuses. You will fail. You will likely fail often. It will be painful. It will be discouraging. At times it will test you to your very core.
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Sometimes no matter how well you prepare or how well you perform you still end up as a sugar cookie. It’s just the way life is sometimes.
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When he undertakes to play a part on the stage, and to persuade the world to think more about him than they do about themselves, he is got into a track where he will find nothing but briars and thorns, vexation and disappointment.
William Hazlittverified·On Living to One's-Self, in Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners·January 1821
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The spectacle of effort is what awakens and sustains our own effort.
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If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it.
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Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.
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Dark pictures and gloomy forebodings are worse than useless.
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The great Government we loved has too often been made use of for private and selfish purposes, and those who used it had forgotten the people.
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was it not obvious that flocks and herds were more ready to obey their keepers than men their rulers