Confidence
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Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful
The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others
The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel
A trust is an obligation of conscience of one to the will of another
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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