Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defence against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. . . . Those who, by their very nature, can suffer completely, utterly, have an advantage.
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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.
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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.
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