No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
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The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by the few Nothing to court in Church, or World, or State, But inwardly in secret to be great.
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Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.
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