Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
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Learn to limit yourself to content yourself with some definite work dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.
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Every life is a possession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent propaganda.
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Will localizes us thought universalizes us.
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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
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