You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.
(Letter to her friend)

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I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

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Let each person tell the truth from his own experience.

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Out of activity may come thought, out of mere aspiration can come nothing.

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