The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Were I a nightingale, I would sing like a nightingale were I a swan, like a swan. But as it is, I am a rational being, therefore I must sing hymns of praise to god.
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Remember that you are an actor in a drama, of such a part as it may please the master to assign you, for a long time or for a little as he may choose. And if he will you to take the part of a poor man, or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen, then may you act that part with grace For to act well the part that is allotted to us, that indeed is ours to do, but to choose it is another s.
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