Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.
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Sad is the day for any man when he becomes absolutely satisfied with the life he is living, the thoughts that he is thinking and the deeds that he is doing when there ceases to be forever beating at the doors of his soul a desire to do something larger which he seeks and knows he was meant and intended to do.
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Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
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