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Circumstances
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“... there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it.”
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“It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.”
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“... success is not a matter of circumstance, but of power to meet circumstance.”
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“All our footsteps, set to make / Metric advance, / Lapse into arcs in deference / To circumstance.”
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“With everything that happens to you, with everyone you meet who is important to you, you either die a little or are born.”
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“It's just as possible to live to the full in a narrow corner as it is in bigness.”
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“Lives that flash in sunshine, and lives that are born in tears, receive their hue from circumstances.”
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“It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.”