“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.”
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
